Cancer BioInformatics

1 Credit · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

While breakthroughs abound in cancer research, there is a profound disconnection in translating these discoveries into clinical medicine. This new didactic course will be based on application of computational biology and high throughput technologies to cancer research. The course is designed as a combination of lectures and practical computer based exercises utilizing functionalities of web-based cancer resources. The course will also cover some aspects of pharmacogenomics. The students will experience the use and applications of informatics resources and tools to different types of cancer. The main goal is to understand these diseases from a Systems Perspective.