SISSA -- PhD in Structural and Functional Genomics
Course Announcement,  Fall 2007
 

Basic (Bio)Statistics and Systems Biology


Lecturer:  Claudio Altafini 
  altafini@sissa.it
  ~altafini

Format

2+2 lectures

Schedule

December, somewhere at Area Science Park, Bassovizza (first 2 lectures), then in room D, main building (last two lectures)

Tentative Course Outline

BasStats
  1. Sampling, Random variables and Probability
  2. Examples and Models of Probability Distributions
  3. Linear regressions
  4. Analysis of Microarray data
    • identify differentially expressed genes
    • clustering
    • principal component analysis
    • ontological enrichment
Introduction to Systems Biology
  1. Inferring Regulatory Networks
  2. ODEs Models in Systems Biology