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Introduction to
Biomedical & Health Informatics
MEDED 530, Fall, '04

Assignment Calendar:

(see below for expectations and other details)

All reading assignments (except textbook chs.) can be retrieved from the course Eres pages.

General expectations:

I have two goals with the assignments in this course (a) to help you contribute to our in-class discussion and understanding of the biomedical informatics field (b) to help you improve your written communication. Thus, my primary expection is that you do the readings, think about them, and come prepared to discuss them in class. A good exercise is to think of at least one discussion question for every class.

To help with my goal (b), you can expect that I will grade homeworks promptly (within about a week) and be available should you want to discuss them.

Reading assignments:

In the assignment list above, "Chapter xx" always refers to chapters in the course textbook (and my apologies in advance for the cost of this text):

Shortliffe, et al; "Medical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine; Springer-Verlag, 2001 (ISBN: 0-387-98472-0).

Without burdening you with too much work, I plan to heavily supplement this text with a set of primary literature readings. For now, I have created a reading list of optional seminal papers that will help you gain a broader picture of the field. To complement the text, I will make some of these papers required reading, and in addition, you must critically read and respond to five of them in your written reaction essay assignments.

Written assignments:

As you can see from the grading page, I will evaluate students based primarily on written assignments. There are two sorts of these: Five reaction essays based on specific readings, and one final written report. Details for the final report are now available.

Reaction paper #3:

This reaction paper is similar to the other 4, except that I would like your reaction to two readings. They are both fairly short, and they are closely related (the latter cites the former, for example). You may focus on either of these papers in your reaction, but you should try to make some mention of both efforts. The two papers are: Hucka, et al., 2003 (on a standard for systems biology) and Hermjakob, et al., 2004 (on a protein interaction standard).

Last Updated:
Nov 1, '04

Contact the instructor at: gennari@u.washington.edu