Fall 2022

Cancer research has rapidly embraced high throughput technologies to help elucidate the molecular and genetic mechanisms that drive this disease. Large amounts of data that are created from various arrays and next generation sequencing platforms are being used to drive diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. Therefore, physician scientists who diagnose, treat, and study cancer must possess knowledge of available bioinformatic resources specific to cancer and understand how to access and analyze available data sets. This course will aim to provide physician scientists with the foundation necessary to incorporate high throughput technologies and bioinformatics tools into their research. This course will also prepare students to understand the strengths and weaknesses of these tools, analyze and present complex data sets, and form productive collaborations with bioinformaticians and computational scientists.