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August 2007
University of Edinburgh
School of Informatics
Specialisms - Bioinformatics and Neuroinformatics

Degree awarded with Distinction (Equivalent GPA 4.0 on a scale of 4.0). Also awarded the Informatics Prize for the highest overall mark in the MSc course.

My goal was to learn more about how complexity emerges in biological systems and in computational (or robotic) systems.
Semester 1
Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming
Learning from Data
Bioinformatics I
Applied Databases
Informatics Research Review - DNA Computation

Semester 2
Computational Systems Biology
Computational Neuroscience of Vision
Intelligent Autonomous Robotics
Bioinformatics 2
Informatics Research Proposal - Evolutionary Genomics

MSc Dissertation
Evolutionary dynamics of conserved non-coding DNA elements: Big bang or gradual accretion? [PDF]