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2016-2017 University Catalog

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BINF 760 - Machine Learning for Bioinformatics

Credits: 3
Not Repeatable for Credit
Offered by School of Systems Biology

Machine learning and data mining methods relevant to application to problems in computational biology. Methods include decision trees, random forests, rule learning methods, support vector machines, neural networks, genetic algorithms, instance-based learning, Bayesian networks, and evaluation metrics for learning systems. Applications include cancer prediction, gene finding, protein function classification, gene regulation network inference, and other recent bioinformatics applications selected from the literature.

Prerequisite(s): BINF 630, BINF 631, and BINF 634 or permission of instructor.
Notes: In addition to lectures from the instructor, students will present papers from the literature and complete a machine learning project.

Schedule Type: LEC
Hours of Lecture or Seminar per week: 3
Hours of Lab or Studio per week: 0

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BINF 760 - Machine Learning for Bioinformatics