For students who have completed BMI 210, BMI 211 or BMI 214 (or who have consent of instructor) and who wish to implement novel software related to applications in biomedical informatics. Projects may address any application area in biomedical informatics, and can involve novel interfaces to existing tools, development of new tools, or integration of existing tools to create new functionality. A premium will be put on having working programs for a final presentation at the end of the quarter. Students will be grouped into teams of 3-4 students. Each group will submit a proposal with functional specifications leading to a working program and final report for each project. Some final reports may be selected for publication in the biomedical informatics literature. There will be a maximum of five projects. Lectures and supplementary readings will be provided about software engineering, technical writing, technical presentations, and proposal writing. Prerequisites: programming experience, 210, 211 or 214, and the consent of the instructor. Enrollment is limited, and may require application.
Teams should have 3-4 people per team. Maximum of 5 teams in the class.
Class Schedule
| Class Date | Topic | Instructor | Comments | |
| 9/28/04 | Introduction to course | Altman | ||
| 9/30/04 | Project lottery | Altman | ||
| 10/5/04 | How to write a proposal | Altman | ||
| 10/7/04 | TBA | Abstracts due | ||
| 10/12/04 | Abstract Presentations | |||
| 10/14/04 | Work on projects | |||
| 10/19/04 | Engineering Protege | Mark Musen | ||
| 10/21/04 | Proposal Presentations | Bring Proposal PPT to class | ||
| 10/25/04 | Proposal document due by 5pm | |||
| 10/26/04 | How to give a technical talk | |||
| 10/28/04 | Peer Review Session | Class | Peer review reports due | |
| 11/2/04 | Peer Review Session | Class | Peer review reports due | |
| 11/4/04 | No Meeting | |||
| 11/9/04 | NCI's software infrastructure | Peter Covitz | ||
| 11/11/04 | Progress Reports | Class | Progress report ppt due | |
| 11/16/04 | TBA | |||
| 11/18/04 | NO CLASS | |||
| 11/23/04 | TBA | |||
| 11/25/04 | Thanksgiving NO CLASS | |||
| 11/30/04 | Final Presentations I | Class | Final ppt due I. Presentations in Learning Theater | |
| 12/2/04 | Final Presentations II | Class | Final ppt due II. Presentations in Learning Theater | |
| 12/10/04 | NO CLASS, BUT | Final report and code due | ||
| 12/14/04 | Grades due |
