[BBC] Still seats available: BioSB Course Programming in Matlab (2nd edition), 13 March 2017, Wageningen

[Femke Francissen]

You can still register for the 1-day BioSB Course: Programming in Matlab on
March 13, in Wageningen.

Find more information about the course in the announcement below!


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*BioSB Course Programming in Matlab, 13 March 2017, Wageningen*

*Website: *http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio-2/course-matlab/
*Coordinators: *Hans Stigter (WUR), Celia van Gelder (BioSB,
celia.van.gelder at dtls.nl)
*Registration: *http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio-2/c
ourse-matlab/enrollment-course-matlab/

*Please note that if you are (or become) a member of BioSB
<http://biosb.nl/about/members/biosb-membership-information/> this course
is free of charge for PhD students and with reduced fee for other
researchers!*

*Goal*

The main goal of this course is to get acquainted with Matlab software for
use within Systems Biology. After this introductory course you will have
gained the basic knowledge to pursue further use via self-study of Matlab
in order to apply more advanced programming techniques within Matlab in
your own research. In summary, the sub-goals are:

1.       To learn the philosophy behind Matlab and its syntax

2.       To program simple Systems Biology models in Matlab (in ordinary
differential equation format) and to solve these differential equations
with Matlab

*Target audience*

Primarily targeting researchers from academia, but participants from the
private sector are also welcome. The course focusses on the use of Matlab
for building dynamic Systems Biology Models in terms of ordinary
differential equations.

*Course Description*

This is a one-day introduction to the possibilities of Matlab as a
programming environment for simulation and analysis of biological models.
We will start with a simple introduction of the basics of Matlab (matrices,
vectors, manipulation of matrices and presentation of data). Having
obtained some basic programming knowledge (writing of simple scripts and
functions in Matlab), we will move on to more advanced topics. These
include programming and solving ordinary differential equation models
(ODEs) and the concept of “vectorized thinking” while writing Matlab-code.
Finally, calibration of parameters in ODE type of models using measured
data will be discussed and examples will be given. The course also includes
the basics of presenting your results (graphing) in various types of plots
that can easily be drawn in Matlab. Participants will, of course, get
hands-on experience with Matlab and write code themselves in a practical.

*Programme*

09:45     Coffee/Tea

10:00     Welcome

10:05     Introduction Matlab Basics (functions, variables, matrices, etc)

10:45     Advanced Programming (vectorised thinking, solving dynamic
ordinary differential equation models in Matlab, parameter estimation for
ODE-models)

12:00     Afternoon: Solving basic and advanced problems in Matlab –
hands-on experience on a PC. Exercises will be provided, but you can also
bring your own problems that you have encountered in your own research.

12:30     Lunch

15:00     Coffee/tea

16:30     End

*BioSB Education Programme*

This course is part of the Education Programme of BioSB, the Netherlands
Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Research School, which offers  training
and education in bioinformatics and systems biology. More information about
BioSB can be found at www.biosb.nl or via education at biosb.nl.
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