Stanford University BIOMEDIN 212 / CS 272 / GENE 212 : Introduction to Biomedical Informatics Research Methodology Fall 2006

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

Date	Topic	Instructor	Comments
9/26/06	Introduction to class	Staff
9/28/06	Project lottery	Staff
10/3/06	How to write a proposal	Altman
10/5/06	TBA		Abstracts due
10/10/06	Abstract Presentations
10/12/06	No Class
10/17/06	Life in Academics vs. Industry	J.Schmidt
10/19/06	Life in Academics vs. Industry	M.Sherman
10/24/06	How to give a talk	Altman
10/26/06	Proposal/Progress presentation		Powerpoints due
10/31/06	NIH Review Criteria	Altman	Proposal documents due
11/02/06	Progress Meetings with Faculty
11/07/06	Peer Review	Class/Staff	Peer reviews due
11/09/06	Peer Review	Class/Staff	Peer reviews due
11/14/06	Progress Meetings with Faculty
11/16/06	No Class
11/21/06	No Class
11/23/06	No Class
11/28/06	No Class
11/30/06	No Class
12/05/06	Final Presentations	Class
12/07/06	Final Presentations	Class	Final powerpoint due
12/14/06	No Class, But		Final report and code due

	Meeting Time & Place
	Tuesday/Thursday 3:15-4:30 - Peter Wallenberg Learning Theater

	Instructors	Office Hours & Location
	Russ B. Altman	Send email request for meetings.
	Teri E. Klein
	Betty Cheng
	Kaustubh Supekar	ksupekar@stanford.edu

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