The course material covering Bioinformatics, Protein Structure and related technological issues constitutes the first two terms, while students work on their project during the third. The material has been divided into 7 sections in Term 1, and 8 in Term 2, each section approximately corresponding to one week. Of course, students have different backgrounds and levels of experience, particularly with the technology involved in the course, so the amount of time needed to tackle the early sections may vary somewhat. Some of the larger sections will cover two weeks. It is initially anticipated that 3 weeks will be sufficient to cover the first two sections, the scientific content of which will be reasonably familiar to a number of the students.
Some sections are short so that slower students can catch up.
If we find that we are initially trying to cover too much information too soon, we can always slow things down a bit, while any advanced students can be directed to more detailed material. We'll see how things progress.