STAT598N •  Statistics in Systems Biology
Overview | Course Requirements | Schedule of Readings
Spring 2009 • Tuesday-Thursday 12:00-1:15pm •  REC  117

Instructor: Yuan (Alan) Qi

Prerequisites:  Basic statistics and introductory biology or permission of instructor.

Content description:  This seminar course will include presentations of readings by students (and guest lectures).  Students will be expected to present at least one major paper during the term. This course covers statistical learning algorithms for computational and systems biology and studies important research problems in these areas, with a focus on biogical network modeling and analysis.

Tentative topics include:

 * Biological problems including motif discovery, gene expression analysis, biological network reconstruction, network analysis, metagenomics analysis, and phylogenetics.

  * Fundamental algorithmic techniques including expectation maximization, hidden Markov models, clustering, Bayesian networks, Markov networks, and approximate inference on graphical models.

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