Bioinformatics, AI and Network Biology for Precision Medicine and Health, 7.5 Credits

Precision medicine aims at combining a wealth of patient data of many different kinds into diagnostic, prognostic and treatment responder prediction signatures for clinical use. This course teaches, hands-on, how molecular, pre-clinical and different kinds of clinical data are combined based on approaches from bioinformatics, network medicine, machine learning and AI modelling. Awareness and methodology for data with diverse characteristics are taught and modelling approaches practised on students own hardware or on online services as an inter-professional course, with students both from (bio)medicine, biology, chemistry or other life sciences, as well as with students from computational engineering, data science, statistics or other data science related fields. An important course aim is to learn about inter-professional communication and necessary knowledge for fruitful project collaboration between these different fields.

This course can be taken together with the parallel course From bench to bedside: Translational precision medicine, 7.5 credits. This course is also included as a module in the course Precision medicine and health: Nutrition, microbiome, translational aspects and bioinformatics, 30 credits.

ECTS Credits

7.5 Credits

Level of education

Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements (A1N)

School

School of Medical Sciences

When is the course offered?

Prerequisites: A first-cycle education comprising at least 180 credits, of which at least 60 credits are within biomedicine, medicine, biology, chemistry, biochemistry, informatics, mathematics, statistics, computer science or equivalent.

The applicant must also have qualifications corresponding to the course “English B” or course “English 6” from the Swedish Upper Secondary School.

Selection: Academic points

Course syllabus

Application code: V8004