BIG11 Bioinformatics for Integrative GenomicsExploring and making sense of multidimensional data sets that result from merging heterogeneous genomic data resources |
IMPORTANT DATES for BIG11
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Instructors: |
Sophia Derdak obtained her PhD in immunology from the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, in 2003. After a postdoctoral project at the German Cancer Research Center (Heidelberg, Germany), she moved to Barcelona to work in cancer biomarker discovery at Oryzon Genomics before joining the Biomedical Genomics Group in 2010. She is interested in integrative Omics, personalized genomics and the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data. |
Alba Jené-Sanz is a Biologist from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She has a Master in Bioinformatics from the same university and she is currently pursuing a PhD at the Biomedical Genomics Group of the University Pompeu Fabra. Her main interests are the study of regulatory pathways in cancer from an epigenomics point of view, and the use of sequencing technologies for large-scale cancer genomics studies. |
Course description:
The application of high-throughput technologies in medical genomics yields complex, multidimensional data sets that describe in detail the myriad changes that occur within individual cells and how these changes differ between patients, cells or conditions. Usually we want to use this data to answer some specific questions. For instance, which of the long list of mutations detected are likely to affect the function of the protein and which are probably neutral? Which of the genes affected by those mutations are already known to be involved in cancer or other diseases? Which pathways or biological processes are affected by the transcriptomic alterations detected in my experiment? Etc.
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Target Audience:The course is directed to researchers in biology and medicine. Background knowledge in bioinformatics is not necessary.Course Pre-requisites:Basic Molecular Biology. Elementary computing skills. |
Detailed Program |
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Apartado 14, 2781-901 Oeiras, Portugal Last updated: September 17th 2011 |