Practical basics of scientific work - MB130P16
Title: Practical basics of scientific work
Czech title: Praktické základy vědecké práce
Guaranteed by: Department of Experimental Plant Biology (31-130)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: 5
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Additional information: https://dl2.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=186
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: RNDr. Jan Petrášek, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): RNDr. Jan Petrášek, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : MB130P16E
Is incompatible with: MB130P16E
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Annotation -
The course gives information on the basics of scientific practise in modern experimental biology. It is devoted to students that intend to study experimental biology specializations. The basics of research practise, planning of experiments, methods of their evaluation, principles of laboratory work, guidelines for writing protocols and ethical rules will be described in detail. Participants will be informed about useful techniques of mining in scientific databases and handling with these data as well as about scientific contribution preparation (poster and oral presentations, scientific papers). Practical demonstrations of techniques useful for bachelor and master thesis writing will be strongly emphasized.
Last update: Petrášek Jan, RNDr., Ph.D. (02.10.2022)
Literature -

Texts for all individual lectures of this course are downloadable from http://lhr.ueb.cas.cz/petrasek/MB130P16.htm

Last update: Petrášek Jan, RNDr., Ph.D. (02.10.2022)
Requirements to the exam -

Credits will be obtained after submission of written exams on the searching, processing and presentation of bibliographic and scientometric data and preparation of the scientific manuscript.

Last update: Petrášek Jan, RNDr., Ph.D. (02.10.2022)
Syllabus -

1 Basics of research work
1.1 The character of scientific work in experimental biology
1.2 Observation and experiment as the two main activities of scientists
1.3 Scientific institutions, organizations, conferences, and social networks
      Scientific contributions at the seminars and conferences, rules for effective abstract writing
1.4 Ethical rules of scientific work including bad habits in scientific writing
1.5 Financing of the scientific research

2 Handling with experimental data
2.1.Organization of work, type of data
2.2 Data explorers, correct data handling and saving
2.3 Spreadsheets, statistical software, graph editors
2.4 Processing of structural and sequence data
2.5 Image analysis, graphical software, presentation software

3 Scientific literature
3.1 Types of scientific reports and their purpose
3.2 Internet sources of information
3.3 How to search for bibliographic records and full-text articles - good and bad habits
         3.3.1 Bibliographic databases accessible at our faculty
         3.3.2 Full-text databases accessible at our faculty
         3.3.3 Creating your own database of references
3.4 Scientometry - a tool for the evaluation of quality and scientific relevance of scientific work
3.5 Peer review of scientific texts - step-by-step guide through the process

4 Artificial intelligence in experimental biology
4.1 AI in the handling and processing of experimental data
4.2 AI in scientific writing

5 Online information databases in experimental biology
5.1 Databases of sequences
5.2 Specialized sequence databases

6 Scientific writing
6.1 Writing bachelor, master and dissertation thesis
6.2 Writing scientific report/paper - good and bad habits, how to publish in a very good journal
6.3 Writingscientific projects and grant proposals

Last update: Petrášek Jan, RNDr., Ph.D. (12.10.2023)