Big Data Analytics

Catalog description

Focuses on data science and big data analytics. Introduces basic concepts of data science and analytics. Different algorithmic techniques employed to process data will be discussed. Specific topics include: Parallel and out-of-core algorithms and data structures, Rules mining, Clustering algorithms, Text mining, String algorithms, Data reduction techniques, and Learning algorithms. Applications such as motif search, k-locus association, k-mer counting, error correction, sequence assembly, genotype-phenotype correlations, etc. will be investigated.