01. Introduction
By Yan Li,
PhD in Bioinformatics, University of Liverpool
What is Bioinformatics?
- Genome sequencing
- Omics
- Big data
- Interdisciplinary
Genome sequencing
Omics
Big data
213,865,349
Genomes in NCBI database (until Aug 2019)
Interdisciplinary
大部分生物信息学工作者都是生物学背景,甚至物理,化学出生的。 因为学计算机和统计挺赚钱的,不需要转生物信息学。
Application
- 23andme, wegene
- Infective diseases control
- Cancer Companion Diagnostics
- Gut metagenomic
- Protein structure prediction
About this course
- All the slides will be in English
- Based on open-source softwares and resources
- Will help you master the follow skills:
- Basic Linux usage and
Bash
programming - Use Bioinformatic tools and Databases
- Basic
R
and statistics
- Basic Linux usage and
挑选一篇paper 使用英语的目的是:1,第一次见到计算机和生物的专业名词都是英语的形式,2.习惯英语阅读,查资料时可以查阅一手的,准确的英语资料,而不是二手的,过时的,不准确的翻译中文资料,3,我的资料来源主要是英语,所以做成英文ppt对我来说容易一些
能用计算器就能用R