Master Machine Learning concepts and tools in Biomedical Research, Cheminformatics and Genomics in 4 weeks through hands-on, project-based online training with DSTC.
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Module-by-module breakdown of Machine Learning concepts and tools in Biomedical Research, Cheminformatics and Genomics, from foundations to a certified capstone project.
Representation
โข SMILES, InChI, fingerprints and molecular graph representations
โข Sequence encodings for nucleotides and proteins
โข Descriptor choice and its dominance over model choice in small-data regimes
Cheminformatics
โข QSAR modelling and applicability domain estimation
โข ADMET prediction and the endpoints where models remain unreliable
โข Scaffold splitting instead of random splitting for honest evaluation
Genomics
โข High-dimension low-sample-size problems and regularisation
โข Batch effects and correction methods that can destroy real signal
โข Multi-omic integration and interpretability of the resulting features
Tooling
โข RDKit, scikit-learn and Bioconductor in a reproducible pipeline
โข Experiment tracking and environment capture for a wet-lab collaboration
โข Version control and data management for a research group
Validation
โข External validation and the reproducibility crisis in biomedical ML
โข Prospective testing against retrospective performance
โข Reporting standards and reviewer expectations for ML in biomedical journals
e-Certificate and e-Marksheet issued on successful completion.