Course Catalog 2012-2013
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Course Catalog 2012-2013

SGN-6176 Microarray Data Analysis, 5 cr

Additional information

Student will learn preprocessing, normalization and analysis methods for data mining of large scale data. In the course, the methods are used for analyzing DNA microarray and next generation sequencing data, but applicable to other types of large scale data as well. Student will learn the basics of microarray and sequencing technologies with several data mining options that are available.
Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Reija Autio

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Excercises
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 4 h/week
 2 h/week
 20 h/per



 
SGN-6176 2012-01 Tuesday 10 - 12, TB223
Thursday 14 - 16, TB224

Requirements

Final examination, weekly exercises, and an assignment
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Learning outcomes

After the course, student can: - list the most common microarrays used in high-throughput analysis, - interpret the results of gene expression microarrays, - apply commonly used methods for analyzing microarray data, - compare various methods used in microarray data analysis, - build workflows for microarray data analysis.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. DNA Microarray experiments      
2. Deep sequencing technologies      
3. Statistical methods for the analysis of high-throughput measurement data     
4. Data classification and clustering      

Evaluation criteria for the course

Final examination, presence in exercises, and assignment.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Book   Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Solutions Using R and Bioconductor   Gentleman, Carey, Huber, Irizarry and Dudoit            English  
Book   DNA Microarray Data Analysis   Tuimala and Laine   952-5520-11-0          English  
Lecture slides     Kesseli et al.            English  

Prerequisites

Course Mandatory/Advisable Description
SGN-6106 Computational Systems Biology Advisable    

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Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
SGN-6176 Microarray Data Analysis, 5 cr SGN-53406 High-throughput Data Analysis, 5 cr  

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
SGN-6176 2012-01 Student will learn many preprocessing, normalization and analysis methods for data mining of large scale data. In the course, the methods are used for analyzing DNA microarray data and modern sequencing data, but applicable to other types of large scale data as well. Student will learn the basics of microarray and sequencing technologies with several data mining options.        

Last modified06.11.2012