This course focuses on computational aspects of analytical techniques for biological data. Topics covered include, how to operate a computer efficiently when using biological data, types of biological data used in animal biosciences, how to prepare biological data for analysis, programming skills for bio-data organization, manipulation and problem solving, biodata visualization, and computational aspects of data modelling.
Major topics and methods in the systematic review of the scientific literature, meta-analysis and empirical modelling for animal sciences will be covered. Topics include strategies for systematically locating and extracting data from the literature, database development and management, model development and statistical analysis, model evaluation and scientific paper writing.
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The course will cover major topics in machine learning with applications to animal biosciences and related areas. This is a project-based course and it will have a computational component and a lab component focused on Python programming.
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Major topics and methods which fall within the scope of 'digital animal production' will be covered. Broad areas of focus include feed formulation, animal models and the application of machine learning within animal production systems.
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This course helps to foster graduate student career success in academia, government, or industry by enhancing student skills in scientific communication and knowledge dissemination and by providing opportunities for personal growth in a chosen area of professional development.
The course will cover major topics and methods in bioinformatics and computational biology for animal sciences. Topics include alignments, phylogenetics, genomics, data mining, databases, DNA, RNA and protein structures, DNA sequence analysis, data curation, pipeline construction and data visualization. This is a project-based course and will have a computational component and a lab component focused on bioinformatics programming.
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You will build a repertoire of modelling techniques from weekly assignments. Lectures will be used to discuss the results of the previous assignment(s) and introduce the methods for these subsequent piece of work. I will lead the discussion and lecture on modelling methodology. Each of you will obtain independence in model construction and analysis with a term project to develop, reproduce, test or use a model related to a research area of your interest.
