Clinical Bioinformatics

Aim:
The aim of this course id to introduce the students to the real ethical link between medical data and bioinformatics in terms of using tools, developing workflows, and analysis of genomic data in the form of sequencing, variant calling, annotation,2, and association with databases.
Course contents:
Introduction to Clinical Bioinformatics, Molecular basis of disease, Personalized and Individualized medicine, DNA sequencing technologies, Identification of variants and relatedness to disease, Variant analysis workflows, Variant analysis software tools, Annotation of variants, Association of variants to knowledge databases, Data and Ethics, Case Studies.