This course distills for you expert knowledge and skills mastered by professionals in Health Big Data Science and Bioinformatics. You will learn exciting facts about the human body biology and chemistry, genetics, and medicine that will be intertwined with the science of Big Data and skills to harness the avalanche of data openly available at your fingertips and which we are just starting to make sense of. We’ll investigate the different steps required to master Big Data analytics on real datasets, including Next Generation Sequencing data, in a healthcare and biological context, from preparing data for analysis to completing the analysis, interpreting the results, visualizing them, and sharing the results.
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Big Data, Genes, and Medicine
The State University of New YorkAbout this Course
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Coursera Labs
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Approx. 40 hours to complete
English
Skills you will gain
- Bioinformatics
- Data Clustering Algorithms
- Big Data
- R Programming
Flexible deadlines
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Shareable Certificate
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Coursera Labs
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Approx. 40 hours to complete
English
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
4 hours to complete
Genes and Data
4 hours to complete
11 videos (Total 59 min), 2 readings, 6 quizzes
8 hours to complete
Preparing Datasets for Analysis
8 hours to complete
13 videos (Total 75 min), 4 readings, 8 quizzes
7 hours to complete
Finding Differentially Expressed Genes
7 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 53 min), 4 readings, 6 quizzes
8 hours to complete
Predicting Diseases from Genes
8 hours to complete
12 videos (Total 85 min), 4 readings, 10 quizzes
Reviews
- 5 stars54.47%
- 4 stars29.18%
- 3 stars8.56%
- 2 stars2.33%
- 1 star5.44%
TOP REVIEWS FROM BIG DATA, GENES, AND MEDICINE
by HHMar 6, 2017
The course is amazing, I want to purchase the course but it is not being working...I don't know what is the problem.
by BJFeb 16, 2023
I learned a lot, all thanks to SUNY and coursera for gradually making my dream a reality.
by KMMay 23, 2020
The course was good to know about bioinformatics and how this can be used. Thank You
by SBJun 22, 2020
The course is more of an intermediate course than an advanced one, but a great starting point from where you can find your own interests and develop further on that.
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