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No 6341

Wednesday 5 March 2014

Vol cxliv No 24

pp. 421–430

Form and conduct of examinations, 2014

Notices by Faculty Boards, or other bodies concerned, of changes to the form and conduct of certain examinations to be held in 2014, by comparison with those examinations in 2013, are published below. Complete details of the form and conduct of all examinations are available from the Faculties or Departments concerned.

Examination in Computational Biology for the degree of Master of Philosophy, 2013–14

The Degree Committee for the Faculty of Mathematics give notice that the options to be offered in 2013–14 and their weightings in the examination are as follows:

Module

Abbreviation

Weight

Scientific programming with R

SP

1

Genome informatics

GI

1

Structural biology

SB

1

Functional genomics

FG

1

Genome sequence analysis

SA

0.5

Population genetics

PG

1

Analysis and modelling comorbities

MC

0.5

Systems biology

SYB

1

Network biology

NB

1

Examination

EX

1

The modules for this course (with the exception of the examination and internship) are assessed by course-work. The internship project is weighted 3 (the report should be no more than 18,000 words and is worth 2.5 modules; the presentation is worth 0.5 modules), bringing the total weight of modules to be offered to 12.