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I'm also looking at this masters course for next year. I'm surprised you got no response from the course administrator as she has definitely been in her office this week
. The course only started this year and I've been told it's difficult to get into. 0 -
I'm also looking at this masters course for next year. I'm surprised you got no response from the course administrator as she has definitely been in her office this week. The course only started this year and I've been told it's difficult to get into.
Ya me too. There are other email addresses on the site but I haven't tried them yet. Have you actually gotten a response from her or anyone else?0 -
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Papa_Lazarou wrote: »I wont see him until friday again
But i'll see you...
Big brother is watching... and is giving you a 3.0 out of 10 for thought crimes. Crimes include conspiracy to annoy and ask me questions. Be there on-time this week and i'll reconsider.
Email a.coghlan[at]ucc.ie
If she hasn't got back to you she will. She's always very helpful.
As for the course itself. Depending on your primary degree your modules will vary.
My background was in biochemistry so all my modules this year are computer science based. The people in our class who have a degree in computer science have mostly biology modules. They are finding it very very hard. They have been put in the deep end, so much so that they have some of the same modules as people who were in my biochem class - with 4 years of biology under their belts.
As for course content, all I can tell you is what we've done so far.
Databases - learning to create databases, modify tables, create queries to find the data we want. Module is pointless without labs to actually practice what we're learning and we only started them the week before last. Now that we're actually seeing it in use it's not so bad.
Discrete Mathematics - So far we've just been doing sets, permutations & combinations, proof by induction, recurrance relations and probability. Pretty straight forward. Lecturer is very good.
Data Analysis 1 - It's basically using R - a program allowing you to handle statistical data and manipulate it to allow you to extract meaning from it. We have labs every week to practice new commands. We also get assignments every few weeks. It's quite hard but very relevant for bioinformaticians and in a weird way I actually enjoy it. Again we have a very good lecturer.
Systems Organisation - I have stopped going to the lectures for this module. The lecturer is all over the place doesn't know whether he's coming or going. It's basically trying to understand the hardware in a computer and how it responds to data at the most basic level - machine code - binary. In the labs we create circuits and see how logic gates etc control current flow in the circuit.
Python Programming - I love this module. I think everyone in the class enjoys it. We learn new functions in the lectures and have to apply them in the lab to solve various problems. For example we might have a problem - create a function to count the number of As, Gs, Ts and Cs in a DNA sequence or see if a particular sequence is found within a DNA strand. At the moment the problems are small but we can definitely see the bigger picture and how when we learn more commands we could create much more complex programs.
As for the cost of the masters - it's funded by the government so it's only 2k and no reg fee. Very cheap in terms of masters. As for jobs - seeing as it's multidisciplenary there's job possibilities in both the biology or computer science industry.
It's ideal for academic research. Most labs need a bioinformatician to handle data. An experiment could give you 100 pages of raw data. They'll need someone to handle the data and put it into something meaningful like a graph so that you can interpret it. I'm hoping to do a PHD. Having bioinformatics is obviously a huge plus as not many people would have the skills to do both the wetlab experiment, analyse the data, interpret and understand the results.
Hope that helps, any questions let me know. Feel free to rip on papa laz, he wears makeup to the lab.
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First off thanks for the response its much appreciated and very helpful.
Email a.coghlan[at]ucc.ie
If she hasn't got back to you she will. She's always very helpful.
I actually emailed this guy: http://www.ucc.ie/microbio/dvs.html as well and got a response of him. He basically said that its a tough course to get into.As for the course itself. Depending on your primary degree your modules will vary.
I'm actually a professional software engineer and graduated with a degree in Digital and Software systems engineering. I have very little experience on the biology side but I do find it very interesting.My background was in biochemistry so all my modules this year are computer science based. The people in our class who have a degree in computer science have mostly biology modules. They are finding it very very hard. They have been put in the deep end, so much so that they have some of the same modules as people who were in my biochem class - with 4 years of biology under their belts.
Well I'm always up for a challenge
. I've got 2.5 years or more of experience working in software so I imagine I could take to the informatics/maths part quite well.It's ideal for academic research. Most labs need a bioinformatician to handle data. An experiment could give you 100 pages of raw data. They'll need someone to handle the data and put it into something meaningful like a graph so that you can interpret it. I'm hoping to do a PHD. Having bioinformatics is obviously a huge plus as not many people would have the skills to do both the wetlab experiment, analyse the data, interpret and understand the results.
Thats great to hear as much as I like engineering I find myself drawn more towards science and scientific research and this course seems like a good gateway to do just that.
Will do!
Thanks again,
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