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Data Science for Life Sciences

Optimization Models

Objective: providing students with the methodological, theoretical and practical tools to formulate linear programming models and combinatorial optimization problems and to solve them, even for high dimensionality problems, using appropriate optimization software.

Introduction to Machine Learning

Objective: Introduce the students to the machine learning fundamentals, to the main techniques on supervised learning, and to the principal application domains. Present evolutionary calculation. The course explains how to design, develop and evaluate simple ML-based end-to-end systems and, at the same time, how to describe their operations.

 

 

Bioinformatics and Genomic Data Analytics

Genome sequencing technologies have revolutionised our approach to study biological systems. From healthy tissues to diseases, many questions are approached through the collection of far larger sequencing datasets, and some argue that all modern biology is computational biology. Sequencing technologies can measure molecular states at various degrees of resolution and noise, and complex bioinformatics/ machine learning pipelines are required to extract complex patterns that characterise from basic cellular processes to disease progression.

 

Numerical Analysis

Objective: providing numerical analysis tools for scientific computing, with particular attention to linear algebra, polynomial approximation, numerical integration, numerical solution of ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations, approximation of eigenvalues and eigenvectors.

 

Data Management for Big Data

Objective: introducing students to computational management of data, in particular the characterization of an information system, data modeling, design and management of databases, including non-traditional ones (eg, unstructured documents, spatial data, biological data , multimedia data), to the fundamentals of distributed data and to methodologies and techniques for the management and analysis of big data.