Foundations of DNA and Biotechnology

Catalog description

This course investigates the nature and origin of the human genome and covers contemporary issues. It also covers issues on the management of scientific data from publicly accessible data sources and utilizes cloud computing to easily exploit this information. It imparts interdisciplinary knowledge on how to understand, organize, manage and analyze biomedical data using contemporary cloud computing processing. Learning goals include understanding scientific context and the limits of technology, design of data, and design of data infrastructure to gain flexibility of data access, use and reuse indifferent contexts. The design of a biomedical data management system relies on in depth knowledge of highly specific context and the design of various data structures concerning the same data to allow access and exploitation of information related to biomedical applications.