Language of instruction
中文
Current course fees
20,410
Location
Shanghai
X ACADEMY
Global Explorer Summit
-
2024.07.25
Major Course X-Core
Introduction to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
引言生物信息学和计算生物学
COURSE INTRO
Course Introduction 01
COURSE INTRO
Course Introduction 01
With the rapid development of nucleic acid and protein sequencing technologies, a large amount of biological data is constantly being generated: the data contains new cell types, new anti-cancer genes, and even special cell development processes... Biological data analysis has become the key to unlocking the mysteries of life, and the development of computers has made bioinformatics possible. At the same time, the application of integrating computer technology and mathematical models will accelerate the decryption of human life. The intersection with computers has led to revolutionary developments in life sciences and has become an inevitable trend in future discipline development.
The course
With the rapid development of nucleic acid and protein sequencing technologies, a large amount of biological data is constantly being generated: the data contains new cell types, new anti-cancer genes, and even special cell development processes... Biological data analysis has become the key to unlocking the mysteries of life, and the development of computers has made bioinformatics possible. At the same time, the application of integrating computer technology and mathematical models will accelerate the decryption of human life. The intersection with computers has led to revolutionary developments in life sciences and has become an inevitable trend in future discipline development.
The course
COURSE OUTCOME
Course Outcome 02
COURSE OUTCOME
Course Outcome 02
Using what you have learned to model and analyze a biological system, completing a complete academic research process of independent topic selection, model design, result analysis, and poster creation.
*The type and content of the final output are based on the product of the explorer's participation in the X-Capstone project
Using what you have learned to model and analyze a biological system, completing a complete academic research process of independent topic selection, model design, result analysis, and poster creation.
*The type and content of the final output are based on the product of the explorer's participation in the X-Capstone project
COURSE CONTENTS
Course Contents 03
COURSE CONTENTS
Course Contents 03
Bioinformatics: high-throughput omics methods, R language analysis and visualization of biological big data, sequence alignment algorithms;
Systems and Computational Biology: systems biology concepts, fundamental mathematics and programming mindset, mathematical modeling of biological systems and applications of artificial intelligence;
Bioinformatics: high-throughput omics methods, R language analysis and visualization of biological big data, sequence alignment algorithms;
Systems and Computational Biology: systems biology concepts, fundamental mathematics and programming mindset, mathematical modeling of biological systems and applications of artificial intelligence;
PREREQUISITES
Prerequisites 04
PREREQUISITES
Prerequisites 04
High school mathematics and biology foundation required, Python or R language proficiency recommended.
High school mathematics and biology foundation required, Python or R language proficiency recommended.
"What XA has brought to me, the improvement of CS literacy goes without saying, but what I am more grateful for is being able to meet the top and most outstanding peers of my age. I have seen living MIT, CIT students, consulted TAs who can do nothing but debug, and also gained a bunch of board game friends. Perhaps saying that my dream is to change the world will be laughed at by people, but XA has given me the confidence to turn my dreams into reality."
This road is long, and the places to go are filled with poetry and ideals. The tears and sweat left behind yesterday make me more tenacious and courageous now. This is what XA has taught me: we can always be a little braver."
Haiyi Jin Explorer
Fudan University
"What XA has brought to me, the improvement of CS literacy goes without saying, but what I am more grateful for is being able to meet the top and most outstanding peers of my age. I have seen living MIT, CIT students, consulted TAs who can do nothing but debug, and also gained a bunch of board game friends. Perhaps saying that my dream is to change the world will be laughed at by people, but XA has given me the confidence to turn my dreams into reality."
This road is long, and the places to go are filled with poetry and ideals. The tears and sweat left behind yesterday make me more tenacious and courageous now. This is what XA has taught me: we can always be a little braver."
Haiyi Jin Explorer
Fudan University
"What XA has brought to me, the improvement of CS literacy goes without saying, but what I am more grateful for is being able to meet the top and most outstanding peers of my age. I have seen living MIT, CIT students, consulted TAs who can do nothing but debug, and also gained a bunch of board game friends. Perhaps saying that my dream is to change the world will be laughed at by people, but XA has given me the confidence to turn my dreams into reality."
This road is long, and the places to go are filled with poetry and ideals. The tears and sweat left behind yesterday make me more tenacious and courageous now. This is what XA has taught me: we can always be a little braver."
Haiyi Jin Explorer
Fudan University
MENTORS
Previous Course Mentors 05
MENTORS
Previous Course Mentors 05
Darintai Lingtai
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of the Institute of Systems Biomedicine
Research Interests: Computer simulation of biological macromolecular machines, natural product biosynthetic mechanisms and drug functions
Jie Zheng
Associate Professor, School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University
Research Interests: Data science, health and medical big data, artificial intelligence
Darintai Lingtai
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of the Institute of Systems Biomedicine
Research Interests: Computer simulation of biological macromolecular machines, natural product biosynthetic mechanisms and drug functions
Jie Zheng
Associate Professor, School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University
Research Interests: Data science, health and medical big data, artificial intelligence
ACADEMIC LEADS
Previous Course TAs 06
ACADEMIC LEADS
Previous Course TAs 06
Sunnie Ma
PhD Candidate, Stanford University
B.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University, Minor in Biology
Previously interned at Shanghai Cancer Institute, where I wrote a review on the impact of TERT promoter mutations on the development of liver cancer, published in Heptoma Research. Also interned as an algorithm engineer at IBM China and developed the OpenAttack toolkit at Tsinghua THUNLP Lab.
Qianchang Wang
PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
B.S., Harvey Mudd College
Double major in Mathematics & Computational Biology, Minor in Political Science
Fascinated by exploring and understanding the essence of things. Passionate and determined about the interdisciplinary research of systems biology, synthetic biology, and immunology. Joined the iGEM team at MIT in 2017 and participated in the design and research of CRISPR-dCas13a for RNA splicing regulation in the Weiss Lab. From 2018 to 2020, joined the Banchereau Lab at the Jackson Laboratory to discover potential pathogenic isoforms/neoantigens using LR-Seq from a more upstream perspective. In 2021, joined the Shalek Lab at MIT to study the pathogenic mechanisms of different diseases, including tuberculosis and pneumonia (COVID-19), using scRNA-seq. Enjoys exchanging ideas with explorers from different disciplines, learning their unique ways of thinking and perspectives. In addition to modern science, also has a great interest in Daoist philosophy and traditional Chinese medicine.
AZ Zhang
Double major in Molecular Cell Biology and Computer Science, with a minor in Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Passionate about bridging the gap between traditional genetic research and computational biology. Joined the Wang Lab at UC San Francisco in 2022 to assist in the research of gene mechanisms behind mouse brain vascular malformations and tumor vascularization using computer vision and spatial scRNA-seq. Joined the Ünal and Brar Labs at UC Berkeley in 2023 to start working with human cell cultures. Employed various sequencing methods at different stages of the physiognomy center law and machine learning in the era of integrated genomics.
Sunnie Ma
PhD Candidate, Stanford University
B.S. in Computer Science, Stanford University, Minor in Biology
Previously interned at Shanghai Cancer Institute, where I wrote a review on the impact of TERT promoter mutations on the development of liver cancer, published in Heptoma Research. Also interned as an algorithm engineer at IBM China and developed the OpenAttack toolkit at Tsinghua THUNLP Lab.
Qianchang Wang
PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge
B.S., Harvey Mudd College
Double major in Mathematics & Computational Biology, Minor in Political Science
Fascinated by exploring and understanding the essence of things. Passionate and determined about the interdisciplinary research of systems biology, synthetic biology, and immunology. Joined the iGEM team at MIT in 2017 and participated in the design and research of CRISPR-dCas13a for RNA splicing regulation in the Weiss Lab. From 2018 to 2020, joined the Banchereau Lab at the Jackson Laboratory to discover potential pathogenic isoforms/neoantigens using LR-Seq from a more upstream perspective. In 2021, joined the Shalek Lab at MIT to study the pathogenic mechanisms of different diseases, including tuberculosis and pneumonia (COVID-19), using scRNA-seq. Enjoys exchanging ideas with explorers from different disciplines, learning their unique ways of thinking and perspectives. In addition to modern science, also has a great interest in Daoist philosophy and traditional Chinese medicine.
AZ Zhang
Double major in Molecular Cell Biology and Computer Science, with a minor in Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
Passionate about bridging the gap between traditional genetic research and computational biology. Joined the Wang Lab at UC San Francisco in 2022 to assist in the research of gene mechanisms behind mouse brain vascular malformations and tumor vascularization using computer vision and spatial scRNA-seq. Joined the Ünal and Brar Labs at UC Berkeley in 2023 to start working with human cell cultures. Employed various sequencing methods at different stages of the physiognomy center law and machine learning in the era of integrated genomics.
Language of instruction
中文
Current course fees
20,410
Location
Shanghai
X ACADEMY
Global Explorer Summit
-
2024.07.25
Location
Shanghai
Language of instruction
中文
Current course fees
20,410
X ACADEMY
Global Explorer Summit
-
2024.07.25
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