At Karolinska Institutet a local ten-week course in Bioinformatics is (half time workload) within the Biomedical program, a four-year program that results in a master degree. The course accepts 24 students yearly.

The course is designed with an introductory lecture each week, covering the subject of the week with lecture notes published at the web. Teaching assistants are available in the computer teaching room in connection to each lecture, to help students with hands on for database searching, multiple sequence analysis, molecular graphics etc. Furthermore, each subject within the course is followed by a set of questions and mini problems that have to be solved by the students individually. The answers and solutions are submitted (electronically) to the responsible teacher, which will give feedback the following week. In parallel the students have to perform a project work. They receive a DNA sequence that should be submitted to databases for comparisons. From the obtained results they are asked to present as much data as possible and motivate the reliability of the final presented data. Beside this they also present a short summary of published work within the field that the DNA sequence represents. Passed project work is instead of a final examination. The entire course focuses on student activating methods with a limited number of lectures.