Course Catalog 2014-2015
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Course Catalog 2014-2015

YHTTAY-24456 Biological Data Analysis with R, 5 cr

Person responsible

Olli Yli-Harja, Matti Nykter

Requirements

Period 3 in UTA Lectures: 4h/wk Exercises: 2h/wk Project work

Learning Outcomes

After the course, the student can: - Describe both the data required as input for basic data analysis tasks and the information obtained from the output. - Choose the correct tools of data analysis in basic cases and explain why the tools are appropriate. - Use R for visualization of data. - Use R for programming simple scripts which apply standard data analysis tools to data.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Working with data matrices in R Hierarchical clustering Dimensionality reduction Genome-wide statistical testing Data visualization in R Accessing databases in R Gene ontology Enrichment analysis Visualizing pathway graphs Simple data analysis pipelines     

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Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

Last modified17.02.2014