In the series of courses offered at the Pasteur Institute, a course will be offered in informatics in biology. The next session will take place from the 3th of January to the 8th of April 2000. The course description is attached. The diplomas delivered to students of these courses are considered as university degrees.
Registration is mandatory via the committee of courses.
The working language of the course is French. The objective of this course is to give to the researchers and future researchers in biology, an initial exposure to informatics. Entry in the course is reserved to those with a degree in biology or a related discipline. With more and more tools available to the biologist, it has become important that the biologist acquire the ability to judge for themselves the usefulness of a new software by the algorithms it employs. The accent is put on the fundamental aspect of this discipline.