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Assignments:
1. First assignment - 25% (grade 1 to 10). Essay for Karkinos - GMB Cancer Notes Blog Students will choose a scientific paper from literature related to the subject “animal and human cancer target genes” and write a 500-800 word assay about a gene or gene pathway associated to one of the 200 different types of cancer that exists. The assay should include a summary of the type of cancer, describing gender, age, geographical occurrence, statistics, current treatment; the paper that underlies the assay can be related to the identification of the genes associated to the chosen type of cancer, gene targets of drugs, databases of associated cancer genes and other aspects that relates the chosen type of cancer and gene target. Choice of paper will be approved by the course coordinator (Prof. Mozart). Due date: 7/12/2018, sent by e-mail to bioinfocourse@gmb.bio.br. In the subject line should be written A1 “Name of Student”, example A2 Patrick. 2. Second assignment - 25% (grade 1 to 10) Essay for Karkinos - GMB Cancer Notes Blog tudents will choose a scientific paper from literature related to the subject “animal and human cancer omics data or molecular docking” and write a 500-800 word assay summarizing the chosen article. The assay should include a summary of the type of cancer, describing gender, age, geographical occurrence, statistics, current treatment; the paper that underlies the assay should highlight results of next generation sequencing data related to a cancer study. Choice of paper will be approved by the course coordinator (Prof. Mozart). Due date: 13/12/2018, sent by e-mail to bioinfocourse@gmb.bio.br. In the subject line should be written A2 “Name of Student”, example A2 Patrick. 3. Class/Precept Participation - 50% (grade 1 to 10)* Students will write a letter of application (LA) for a lab position highlighting how they have performed in the course and how the skills they have learned are important for them to be selected for the position (30% of this assignment); strcutured comment (DA) of their classmates assays in the blog Karkinos - GMB Cancer Notes Blog** (30% of this assignment, at least two comments should be uploaded to receive 10); attendance to the classes (AC)*** (20% of this assignment); ethics, discipline, participation in class (PC) (20% of this assignment) * each of the assignments will be graded from 1 to 10 and final grade for the whole assignment will be the average of the four grades, each multiplied by its factor ((LA*4+SC*2+AC*2+PC*2)/10) ** a blog for publication of short assays written by students of academic courses maintained by the GMB group (research scientific group of Prof. Marins). ** each absence will reduce 1 point of this assignment Due date: 13/12/2018, sent by e-mail to bioinfocourse@gmb.bio.br. In the subject line should be written A3 “Name of Student”, example A3 Patrick. |
Final grading of all assignments
(A1*2,5+A2*2,5+A3*5)/10 |