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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Advanced Level
Approx. 40 hours to complete
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Skills you will gain
- Bioinformatics
- Data Clustering Algorithms
- Big Data
- R Programming
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Advanced Level
Approx. 40 hours to complete
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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
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- 5 stars54.47%
- 4 stars29.18%
- 3 stars8.56%
- 2 stars2.33%
- 1 star5.44%
TOP REVIEWS FROM BIG DATA, GENES, AND MEDICINE
by BJFeb 16, 2023
I learned a lot, all thanks to SUNY and coursera for gradually making my dream a reality.
by HHAug 24, 2020
This course gives me a idea about my project.very informative course.thank you
by EMAug 13, 2022
Great place to start for those wanting to obtain a bioinformatic skill base. The skills I learned during this course have had a positive impact upon my current lab project. Well worth your time!
by AMNov 28, 2018
Should have focused more on the coding part. Rest of the course was informative and well structured.
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