Course Details
Topic 1: Introduction to Bioconductor and Sequence Analysis
- Overview of Bioinformatics
- Understanding Sequence Alignment
- Introduction to Bioconductor
- Multiple Sequence Analysis
- Interpreting Sequence Similarity Scores
Topic 2: Structural Bioinformatics and Variant Calling
- Introduction to Structural Bioinformatics
- Analysing Protein Structures
- Variant Calling Using Bioconductor
- Evaluating Relationships Between Protein Structures and Functions
Topic 3: Transcriptomes, Genomics, and Variant Analysis
- Introduction to Transcriptome Data Analysis
- Genomic Data Analysis and Visualization
- Gene Expression Analysis and Differential Expression
- Variant Detection and Annotation in Genomic Data
Topic 4: Machine Learning for Bioinformatics
- Introduction to Machine Learning
- Machine Learning for Predictive Modelling in Bioinformatics
- Clustering and Classification of Biological Data
- Predictive Models for Genomic and Transcriptomic Data
Topic 5: Data Visualization for Bioinformatics
- Creating Data Visualizations using ggbio
- Heatmaps for Transcriptomic and Genomic Data
- Visualizing Biological Pathways and Networks
- Communicating Biological Insights through Effective Visualizations
Course Info
SSG Training Grant
SSG TG is $30 per pax. Net fee after SSG TG is $502.86. Absentee Payroll is not eligible.
Prerequisite
This is an intermediate course. the following basic knowledge is assumed
Software Requirement
Please download and install the following software prior to the class
Job Roles
- Bioinformatics Specialist
- Genomic Data Analyst
- Biostatistician
- Research Scientist in Genetics
- Clinical Data Manager
- Computational Biologist
- Biomedical Informatics Analyst
- Healthcare Data Scientist
- Genomic Research Associate
- Molecular Biologist
- Bioconductor Developer
- Pharmaceutical Data Scientist
- Population Geneticist
- Oncology Bioinformatics Specialist
- Agricultural Genomics Researcher
- Personalized Medicine Specialist
- Genetic Epidemiologist
- Data Scientist in Biotechnology
- Laboratory Information Management Specialist
- Machine Learning Specialist in Genomics
Trainers
Dwight Nuwan Fonseka: Dwight Nuwan Fonseka is a ACTA certified trainer. Dwight Nuwan Fonseka have a degree in Biotechnology (from NUS), Advanced diploma in Pharmaceutical management (from MDIS) and Masters in Education (from NTU). He have 8 years experience of teaching biology at O and A levels/ IB level in international schools in Singapore and overseas.
Customer Reviews (3)
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1. Do you find the course meet your expectation? 2. Do you find the trainer knowledgeable in this subject? 3. How do you find the training environment - Mr Dwight is very adaptable and professional in his teaching Review by Course Participant/Trainee
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1. Do you find the course meet your expectation? 2. Do you find the trainer knowledgeable in this subject? 3. How do you find the training environment
Mr Dwight is very adaptable and professional in his teaching, he has kindly customized changes in the coursework to suit my job requirement. I have benefited a lot from it. I greatly appreciate Mr Dwight's help (Posted on 4/24/2020) - Will Recommend Review by Course Participant/Trainee
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1. Do you find the course meet your expectation? 2. Do you find the trainer knowledgeable in this subject? 3. How do you find the training environment
Thanks for catering to my specific request for working with single cell sequencing data! (Posted on 9/11/2019)