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Tik-61.181: Bioinformatics\hfill Kaski, Mannila, Nikkilä \\
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\subsection*{Some preliminary topics of the project work}
\begin{itemize}
\item[1)] {\bf Your own topic} (creatively utilized opportunity to
  invent your own project work is positively taken into account when
  the grades are decided)
\begin{itemize}
\item the course material(books and articles) form an excellent base
  for project work
\item personnel of the course has some data (at least expression data)
  and sequences and other biological data as well as some program
  packages can quite easily be found from the WWW (assistant will
  shortly provide some links to these sites)
\end{itemize}
\item[2)] Analysis of the expressions of yeasts known genes in
  different treatments (VisualGene, for group of two people)
\begin{itemize}
\item data includes all the known genes of the yeast {\em
    Saccharomyces Cerevisiae} and their expression profiles in several
  treatments
\item the program runs on Windows environment and the license includes
  50 start ups of the program
\end{itemize}
\item[3)] Analysis of the expressions of the yeasts all genes in
  diauxic shift (VisualGene, for group of two people)
\begin{itemize}
\item data includes the all genes of same yeast, but only one
  treatment: diauxic shift
\item in addition the data has variables concerning the micro array
  technique
\item the program runs on Windows environment and the license includes
  50 start ups of the program
\end{itemize}
\item[4)] Gene expression data analysis with SOMToolbox
\begin{itemize}
\item data to be decided
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
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