BINF001 - ECTS

BINF002 - ECTS The goal is to carry on developing the mathematical reasoning initiated in highschool education, in order to be able to meet the demands of other curricular units. On completing this curricular unit, students should have acquired the necessary skills in differential calculus and integration of functions of one variable, including the fundamental theorems of calculus.

BINF003 - ECTS At the end of the course is intended that students have skill to: a) Understand the principles of classification and diversity of living organisms. b) Give details of structural and functional aspects of cellular biology. c) Identify the basic principles of metabolism in plant and in animal cells. d) Understand the fundamentals of the control of cell division e) Understand the fundamentals of heredity f) Acquire abilities of optical microscopy techniques and cytochemistry

BINF004 - ECTS Learning objectives (knowledge, skills, and competencies to be developed by students):

• Acquisition of theoretical and practical knowledge fundamental to the understanding of IS and its role in organizations, particularly in the health area;
• Acquisition of core knowledge in domains associated with IS (Information Management, Architecture, Project Management, Auditing, Ethics);
• Ability to identify solutions to specific problems in the IS framework from organizational reading;
• Identify some of the main methods, tools, and solutions within the IS;
• Identification of the importance of IS design, management and control activities in an organizational context;
• Ability to critically reflect on issues related to the fundamentals of IS;
• The framework of the role and role of the Information Systems Manager.

BINF005 - ECTS

This curricular unit is designed primarily to provide to the student an overview of boinformátics as an interdisciplinary science that allows the storage and analysis of large volumes of biological information, involving biochemists, biologists, mathematicians and experts in the latest informatic techniques applied to Biological and Chemical sciences. In addition, it is intended with this curricular unit to introduce the student to several fields of action and application of bioinformatics.

BINF006 - ECTS After this course it is expected that the student will know and understand the fundaments of general chemistry. The student should be able to recognize the atomic structure and chemical bonds, basic foundations of chemistry, with the aim of understanding the structure of matter and its transformations, as well as understand and to know how to implement qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis, distinguishing between the different chemical equilibrium. Understand the acid-base equilibrium, knowing how to use buffer solutions, titrations and acid-base volumetry. Although the essentially introductory character of this UC, it is intended that students acquire skills allowing them a better adaptation and understanding of problems involved in chemical processes in the subsequent UC, essential to access profession as professionals in Biotechnology in general and particularly in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, food and biochemistry, or related fields, and in public services.

BINF007 - ECTS

BINF008 - ECTS

The student should be able to design, conceive and implement 
databases using the relational database model. 
Concepts, various models and existing database systems are 
presented. It is intended that the student acquire the ability 
to describe the architecture of a Database Management System 
and use a database construction tool with this approach. 
In this context, it should understand the transactional 
operation, the mechanisms of competition, security and 
fault tolerance and authorization/authentication in a DBMS.

It is also objective for the student to acquire skills in 
analyzing and extracting information from the database. 
Data definition and data manipulation languages ​​will be 
presented.

For the practical component, among the available tools, 
a reference client/server architecture database on the 
market will be used.

BINF009 - ECTS The objective of this curricular unit is to increase the knowledge about the basic functional unit of all living beings – the cell, in terms of its composition, dynamic and functioning.

BINF010 - ECTS

BINF011 - ECTS This course has as main objectives to offer the student a global vision of the programming paradigm.


At the end of the course unit the learner is expected to be able to:

1.  Notion of algorithm as the formalisation of the solution to a well-defined problem into a sequence of elementary actions.
2. Analyse a given algorithm and predict the final result of its execution;
3. Design algorithms in natural language and pseudocode.
4. Understand and know: computer programming as a way to describe algorithms in a formal language that can be executed in a general-purpose computer;
5. elementary principles of programming: variables, decision instructions, cycle instructions, lists and arrays, the traditional cycle of developing computer programs:
6. design, programming and testing.
7. Apply the knowledge of these basic principles to phyton programming language.
8. Be able to translate a given algorithm into a complete program.
9. Being able to solve a given problem by designing, programming and testing it.

BINF012 - ECTS

The objectives for students are: to become familiar with formulas, structures, nomenclature and concepts in the field of organic chemistry; to recognize the importance of a given molecule, the role and distribution of electrons that can intervene in organic reactions; to classify the reactions of organic compounds; to understand the chemical reactions and justify mechanistically these reactions. Apply the knowledge of the reactivity of different functional groups in order to obtain new compounds; to acquire the concept of geometry of molecules in space associated with the study of stereochemistry.

It is intended that students acquire skills to access profession as chemical engineering professionals in the chemical or biological in general and, in particular, in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, food and biochemistry, or related fields, and in public services.

BINF013 - ECTS

BINF014 - ECTS The objective of this curricular unit is the knowledge and understanding of the properties and structure of the foremost classes of biomolecules (sugars, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids), their interactions with the solvent water, and the mechanisms by which they react in a controlled manner in the context of the living cell.

BINF015 - ECTS

Nesta unidade curricular o estudante deverá ser capaz de caracterizar a arquitetura e distinguir os diferentes modelos de um Data Warehouse, abordando o modelo dimensional de Ralph Kimball e o modelo enpresarial de W. H. Inmon.

Pretende-se que o estudante domine as componentes do Data Warehouse, e que consiga planear e executar o ciclo de desenvolvimento de um Data Warehouse. Deverá conseguir dominar a análise e desenho do processo ETL e ter conhecimento de ferramentas de interrogação OLAP.

Deverá desenvolver competências práticas no desenvolvimento de data warehouses com base no esquema em estrela e capacidade para construir expressões MDX, utilizando as ferramentas de Data Tools do Microsoft SQL Server ou então na solução Oracle Exadata Intelligent Warehouse.

BINF016 - ECTS

BINF017 - ECTS

This curricular unit is designed primarily to provide students with an integrated view of the structure and function of genomes, taking into account their methods of sequencing, annotation and analysis. In addition, at the end of the semester it is expected that students know the latest methods of genetic analysis at the RNA level and protein expression, in addition to understand the functioning of cells in an integrated and comprehensive manner.

BINF018 - ECTS This course has as main objectives to provide the student with a global vision of the object-oriented programming paradigm. At the end of the course unit the learner is expected to be able to - Identify and apply the fundamentals of the Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) paradigm. - Analyse problems and design solutions for those problems using the object-oriented paradigm - Build common software applications using an object-oriented programming language. - Design and implement solutions through teamwork

BINF019 - ECTS The purpose of this course is to introduce the basic principles biological sequences analysis, based on the concept of sequence (DNA, RNA and proteins), associated with the structure of biomolecules, to promotethe understanding of the applications of the various algorithms and to give the skills required to choose the most appropriate techniques and interpret the results obtained. The most common algorithms will bediscussed, as students should be able to understand and transcribe them into code, and the various tools available for analysis and treatment sequences will be studied in detail, so that students master them properly.

BINF020 - ECTS

BINF021 - ECTS This course has as main objectives to offer the student a global vision of the programming paradigm.


At the end of the course unit the learner is expected to be able to: Understand the operating system:

Understand the operation of the operating system.

Understand the communication between computers.

Understand the concept of parallel and distributed processing as a way to increase performance in data management and analysis.

Develop algorithms and models to solve problems that explore concurrency, distribution and parallelism.

Recognize the different hardware architectures to support the operation of these algorithms.

BINF022 - ECTS Understand the main concepts related with Business Intelligence, namely DataWarehouse, ETL and Reporting Tools and the technological infrastructure;
Understand the importance of Business Analytics as a practice of iterative data exploration, to enable the decision making.
Understand the importance of Data Mining in organizations
Knowledge Discover in Databases through Data Mining techniques;
Understand the main concepts, methodologies and Data Mining techniques.

BINF023 - ECTS

Students are expected to recognize the importance of Information Safety and ethical codes. At the end of the curricular unit students should be able to:

(O.1) Reflect on the role of information and its security in the current social and organizational context.

(O.2) Understand the need to apply codes of conduct to the different organization activities;

(O.3) Produce Information Security Policies and Ethical and Conduct Codes in the framework of the organization strategy;

(O.4) Know and apply the national and international rules on information security and ethics to support, within the rules, the implementation and use of Ethical and Conduct Codes and Information Security Management System.

BINF024 - ECTS

BINF025 - ECTS

BINF026 - ECTS

The UC aims to develop chemical and biochemical structure-based computational skills, focusing on structure modelling, protein modelling and protein interactions. Students will learn the validity and applicability of semi-empirical, density functional theory and ab initio methods, as well as the basics of molecular mechanics and dynamics and of protein-ligand and protein-protein docking.

BINF027 - ECTS

• Take responsibility for individual and collective development as an entrepreneur on your own or on behalf of others.
• Develop autonomy with regard to decision making and problem solving in a context of creating the company itself or existing companies in a proactive, innovative way generating sustainable value.

BINF028 - ECTS This UC is organized so that students use all the knowledge and skills from previous UCs and develop their own projects, in a computational environment, with a high degree of autonomy and under the necessary supervision. The structural simulation skills from “Bioquímica Computacional” UC and the mathematical modelling skills from “Metabolismo e Regulação” and “Modelação de Processos Biológicos” UCs are the key skills the students will develop; various other UCs of the biotechnology and informatics will also be used.

BINF029 - ECTS This UC goal is to provide students with the mathematical skills to model and simulate biological/biochemical systems from a kinetic/metabolic perspective. This stems from the biochemical systems theory, in which biochemical systems can be modelled using differential equations, encompassing not only kinetics and flows but also regulation processes and compartmentation. This UC also includes models of pharmacokinetic origin.

BINF030 - ECTS The main objective of this curricular unit is to get the student to solve a new problem, corresponding to a new situation in a working context, in an internship or as a project, based on the skills and knowledge acquired during the course in Bioinformatics.