IMPORTANT: The informatic platforms of the educational guides of the two universities, although being similar, they have light differences. In front of any discrepancy between the guides, we will take into account the one published in the web page of the master degree.
The realisation of experiments in biology generates every time a greater number of data. The management and analysis of these data would be already impossible without the utilisation of computer tools inside the discipline of the bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is a mixture of knowledge and techniques of the areas of computer science and mathematics applied to life sciences, especially the biology. Within the domain of Bioinformatics, we study the data programming and its storage in databases, access to these databases and the application of distinct algorithms for data processing. In this subject, we will see the application of bioinformatics to distinct fields of the molecular biology from the analysis of sequences to the study of the structure of proteins and nucleic acids.
