Gene Expression Analysis

Catalog description

In bioinformatics, a sequence alignment is a way of arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA, or protein to identify regions of similarity that may be a consequence of functional, structural, or evolutionary relationships between the sequences. In turn, these relationships have consequence for new insights in medicine, epidemiology, psychology, sociology, and in the social sciences. Many observers have note the flood of new sequencing data every day means that analysis, let alone interpretation, of the data falls ever further behind. Statistical tools a major part of the solution to these issues. This course will cover: the processes by which the observations of a sequence made; the statistical methodology (multivariate analysis of binary data) by which significant sequences are identified; and the implications that follow from this identification.