Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• In the field of biological sciences and particularly in the field of the biology of organisms and ecology, possess highly specialised and integrated knowledge and a wide range of skills adding to those covered in the Bachelor's programme in biological sciences.
• Conduct extensive research and development projects related to biological sciences, in the biology of organisms and ecology.
• Apply, mobilise, articulate and promote the knowledge and skills acquired in order to help lead and complete a project.
• Show initiative and be able to work independently and in teams.
• Manage and lead research, development and innovation projects.
• Understand unprecedented problems in biological sciences, and more specifically in the biology of organisms, ecology and its applications.
• Develop and integrate a high degree of autonomy.
• Pursue further training and develop new skills independently.
• In the field of biological sciences and particularly in the field of the biology of organisms and ecology, possess highly specialised and integrated knowledge and a wide range of skills adding to those covered in the Bachelor's programme in biological sciences.
• Conduct extensive research and development projects related to biological sciences, in the biology of organisms and ecology.
• Apply, mobilise, articulate and promote the knowledge and skills acquired in order to help lead and complete a project.
• Show initiative and be able to work independently and in teams.
• Manage and lead research, development and innovation projects.
• Understand unprecedented problems in biological sciences, and more specifically in the biology of organisms, ecology and its applications.
• Master communication techniques.
• Communicate, both orally and in writing, their findings, original proposals, knowledge and underlying principles, in a clear, structured and justified manner.
• Develop and integrate a high degree of autonomy.
• Pursue further training and develop new skills independently.
• Develop and integrate a high degree of autonomy to evolve in new contexts.
• Apply scientific methodology.
• Critically reflect on the impact of their discipline in general, and on the contribution to projects.
• Demonstrate thoroughness, independence, creativity, intellectual honesty, and ethical values.

Learning Outcomes of UE

To specialize students in biology in biological data science through their initiation to various complementary concepts to previous courses. This course supplements data science concepts taught until now with various more advanced topics: floating-point calculation precision, best coding of data in relation with the current problem, how to realize perfectly reproducible analyses, reproducible pseudo-random generators, writing functions and objects. This course is partly modular in function of specific needs of students.

UE Content: description and pedagogical relevance

The pedagogical material is available online: https://wp.sciviews.org. The chapters of this UE are (can possibly change according to the needs of the students that take this UE): 

- Particular data: dates, text, circular variables
- Projects: structure, different types of reproducible documents
- Code modularization: functions, documentation
- Code optimisation: tests, objects, optimisation techniques
- Initiation to packages and continue integration
- Parallelization and cloud computing

Prior Experience

General knowledge in data science, including project management, data importation and transformation, visualization of data through graphs and bases of writing reproducible reports. Advanced biostatistics in main areas used in biological data analyses.
An update of knowledge prior to the course can be done via material related to courses 1 to 3 in data science available online at https://wp.sciviews.org.