This is one of the bioinformatics courses offered by the Oxford Bioinformatics Programme that can also be used as credit towards a postgraduate qualification in software engineering. You can register for this course at the Bioinformatics Programme's own website.

Course dates

Contents

• Data mining, data visualisation and pattern recognition.
• Visualisation methods including exploratory projection pursuit, multidimensional scaling and Kohonen self-organising maps.
• Cluster analysis.
• Applications to gene expression arrays and functional MRI.
• Classification methods: from linear (LDA and logistic discrimination) to non-linear (neural networks).
• Near-neighbour methods.
• Ideas of expert systems.
• Overview and examples of Bayesian belief networks.
• Assessment of classification methods and experimental design for computational experiments.