Genomic Data Science and Clustering (Bioinformatics V)

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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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