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Genomic Data Science and Clustering (Bioinformatics V)
Course
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English
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- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 3 Sequences
- Introductive Level
Course details
Syllabus
How Did Yeast Become a Wine Maker? (Clustering Algorithms)
- An Evolutionary History of Wine Making
- Identifying Genes Responsible for the Diauxic Shift
- Introduction to Clustering
- k-Means Clustering
- The Lloyd Algorithm
- Clustering Genes Implicated in the Diauxic Shift
- Limitations of k-Means Clustering
- From Coin Flipping to k-Means Clustering
- Making Soft Decisions in Coin Flipping
- Soft k-Means Clustering
- Hierarchical Clustering
- Epilogue: Clustering Tumor Samples
What Genetic Characteristics Do Human Populations Share? (Principal Components Analysis)
- Specific Content TBA
Bioinformatics Application Challenge: Clustering Biological Big Data (RNA-seq)
Prerequisite
None
Instructors
Pavel Pevzner
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Phillip Compeau
Visiting Researcher
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
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