Today's lecture is cancelled
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Dear students, Due to unforeseen personal circumstances, today's lecture is cancelled. I apologize for the short notice and appreciate your understanding. Please note that the tutorial will take place as scheduled. Best, Alona |
| פורסם ב-9/11/2026, 10:39:04 Created on 9/11/2026, 10:39:04 Создано9/11/2026, 10:39:04 تم النشر ب-9/11/2026, 10:39:04 |
Welcome to Introduction to Bioinformatics!
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How do we find genetic changes linked to disease? What can gene expression tell us about a cell? And can we use molecular data to predict whether a treatment will work? These are some of the questions we will explore this semester. We will look at how biological questions become computational problems, and how algorithms, statistics, and machine learning help us make sense of biological data. We will start with DNA sequencing and sequence comparison, then move on to gene expression analysis, population genetics, and the genetic basis of human traits and diseases. Later in the semester, we will explore cancer genomics, precision medicine, single-cell analysis and the use of electronic health records in research. In the tutorials, you will learn R, from the basics of the language and statistical analysis to working with real datasets. In the final project, you will bring these skills together to investigate a research question using genomic data and present your findings. The course connects computer science and biology, so some ideas will be familiar while others will be new. Our goal is to understand how the methods work, why we use them, and what we can reasonably conclude from the results. I look forward to getting started and wish you an enjoyable and successful semester! Alona |
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Introduction to Bioinformatics – A Few Things Before We Begin
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Dear students, Welcome to Introduction to Bioinformatics! I'm Roy, and I'll be your TA for the tutorials this semester. Throughout the course we'll get hands-on experience with computational tools and approaches used in bioinformatics, working with biological data and exploring how programming can help us answer biological questions. A note about the first tutorial. This session lays the groundwork for everything we'll do later in the course. Whether you're new to programming or already have some experience, attending this tutorial is important. We'll introduce the working environment and key concepts that we will use throughout the semester. We will take care of installing the required software together briefly during the tutorial, so you don't need to do anything beforehand. However, if you'd prefer to get a head start, you can install the two programs we'll be using: R: https://cran.r-project.org/ RStudio: https://docs.posit.co/ide/user/download.html Explanation on how to download them: https://rstudio-education.github.io/hopr/starting.html Before each tutorial I'll share the relevant materials and code on the course website ahead of each session. Make sure to download them so you can follow along and practice during the tutorial. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out. See you in class! |
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