150 credits, including 120 credits in biomedicine, pharmaceutical science, chemistry, drug discovery, natural science and/or engineering. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.
The course provides basic knowledge of how bioinformatics tools can be used to solve problems within pharmacology, pharmacy, and pharmaceutical chemistry. The course presents an introduction and historical account of pharmaceutical bioinformatics, representation of biological and chemical data in computers, biological and chemical databases, theory and methods for the analysis of experimental data, sequence analysis, predictive modelling, model validation, structure-activity relationships, and applications in pharmaceutical bioinformatics.
