Precision Medicine Informatics

Catalog description

(same as PTH_AS 7450 ). This course will introduce students with the theoretical and practical aspects of precision medicine informatics. Topics include: complex diseases, computational genomics/proteomics, informatics of molecular interactions and biological pathways, somatic mutations, signal transduction and cancer, biomarker discovery, machine learning and data mining for PMI, networks methods for PMI, knowledge representation and reasoning for PMI. The course will consist of a set of didactic lectures, computational assignments, in-class demonstrations of PMI methods and discussions of recent publications. Credit Hour s : 3 Prerequisites: INFOINST 8005 with C or better or INFOINST 7010 with C or better or instructor's consent