OmicsLogic Monthly Newsletter-October 2022 (Events & Programs)

Hackathons, Programs & Workshops: Here's What's Happening In OmicsLogic Community

OmicsLogic Monthly Newsletter: October 2022

Are you ready to learn something new to reach your goals? This time we are bringing together a month full of hackathons, programs, workshops, and webinars. Find something that inspires you!

Upcoming Hackathon: Microbiome in Health and Wellness

Are you a student, entrepreneur, or research scientist? We are excited to welcome you to participate in an exciting hackathon at the intersection of Genomics, Business, and Computer Science.

✔️Registrations are OPEN! Have a look at the event details here.

Upcoming Programs, Workshops & Webinars

🔵 Program Mentor & Technical Support:

✔️ Dr. Raghavendran Lakshminarayan, Ph.D. Computational Biology, Max-Planck Institute, Germany

✔️ Dr. Mohit Mazumder, Ph.D. Computational Biology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

🔵 Associated OmicsLogic Program Student Resources:

✔️ Online Tutorials: OmicsLogic Learn Courses & Example Research Projects.

✔️ Virtual Classroom & Assignments: Skype, Slack Channel, and Program Page.

✔️ Hands-on Analysis: T-BioInfo Platform & Code Playground.

✔️ Online Project & Technical Support

✔️ Bioinformatics Community: International Student Club, Collaborations, Research Publications & Opportunities.

✔️ OmicsLogic Free Webinars, Workshops, and Symposiums.

✔️ Online Certification: Participation and Program Completion.

OmicsLogic Genomic Data Analysis Program (Level: Intermediate) is designed to introduce bioinformatics applications for studying genomic variation to improve diagnostic accuracy, predict drug efficacy, and monitor diseases in individuals and populations.

🔵 Program Learning Outcome:

✔️ Gain thorough knowledge of molecular biology and genomics for bioinformatics.

✔️ In-depth understanding of Next Generation Sequencing: history and applications.

✔️ Gain basic competencies in R programming for working with DNA sequences.

✔️ Analyze genomic data using bioinformatics methods, algorithms, and tools.

✔️ Practical case studies: Malaria; SARS-COV-2; Tuberculosis Infection, Ebola Virus.

🔵 Key Skills Sets: Sequence Alignment Techniques; DNA Variant Calling; Mutability Analysis; Phylogenetic Analysis; Principal Component Analysis; Machine Learning;

🔵 Registration Close: December 31, 2022.

🔵 Program Registration: https://edu.omicslogic.com/genomics.

OmicsLogic Data Science For Biomedical Research Program (Level: Advanced) is designed to cover practical and conceptual aspects of data science, including data wrangling, statistical analysis, and machine learning in application to high-throughput biomedical omics data using big data analysis tools.

🔵 Program Learning Outcome:

✔️ Understand analytical methods for processing, visualization, and analysis.

✔️ Learn terminologies in machine learning and AI for biomedical discovery

✔️ Hands-on practice: unsupervised and supervised ML for omics data.

✔️ Use popular Python packages for data visualization, analysis, and ML

✔️ Interpret and visualize the results obtained from ML analyses on omics dataset

🔵 Key Skill Sets: Python; R Programming Language; Data Wrangling; Exploratory Data Analysis; Statistical and Machine Learning Approaches; Omics Data Analysis

🔵 Registration Close: December 31, 2022.

🔵 Program Registration: https://edu.omicslogic.com/data-science-for-biomedical-research.

OmicsLogic Bioinformatics For Precision Medicine Program (Level: Intermediate) is designed to explore how the various -omics data types generated in these studies can be analyzed and integrated to study the basic biology associated with viruses & their hosts, cancer onset & development and outcomes.

🔵 Program Learning Outcome:

✔️ Gain a basic understanding of bioinformatics applications in precision medicine.

✔️ Analyze genomic data for identifying clinically relevant mutations.

✔️ Perform unsupervised and supervised machine learning for gene expression data.

✔️ Identify variants of concern or variants of interests for biological implications.

✔️ Learn to retrieve cancer research data from public repositories

🔵 Key Skill Sets: Genomic Data Analysis; Transcriptomics Data Analysis; Metagenomic Data Analysis; Oncology Data Sources

🔵 Registration Close: December 31, 2022.

🔵 Program Registration: https://edu.omicslogic.com/bioinformatics-for-precision-meidicine.

OmicsLogic Metagenomics Data Analysis Program (Level: Intermediate) is designed to help students compare microbial composition in different conditions, learn about the sequencing of viral samples, and discuss how microbes evade the immune response of the host as well as evade treatment.

🔵 Program Learning Outcome:

✔️ Understand methods and applications for Metagenomics Sequencing and Analysis.

✔️ Learn to use Big Data Analysis Platform for Metagenomics Analysis.

✔️ Interpretation and Meaning: Statistical Analysis, Visualization & Interpretation using R.

✔️ Future Directions: Full metagenomic sequencing, metatranscriptomics, and functional analysis.

✔️ Learn to prepare a Metagenomics Research Proposal.

🔵 Key Skill Sets: 16S metagenomic analysis; DADA2 Microbiome Variability and Composition

🔵 Registration Close: December 31, 2022.

🔵 Program Registration: https://edu.omicslogic.com/omics-metagenomics.

OmicsLogic Bioinformatics Research Fellowship Program (Level: Advanced) is designed to help young researchers and students take advantage of the bioinformatics resources for the analysis of complex life science data and become versed in bioinformatics.

🔵 Program Learning Outcome:

✔️ Expert feedback and overall evaluation of project quality, innovation, and analysis execution.

✔️ Poster presentation at the research fellowship meeting or research symposium.

✔️ Path to collaboration with expert mentors or faculty at partner universities.

✔️ Provide a full path and guidance to research publication.

🔵 Key Skill Sets: Literature Review; Exploratory Analysis; Statistical Analysis; Downstream Analysis; Biological Interpretation

🔵 Registration Close: December 31, 2022.

🔵 Program Registration: https://edu.omicslogic.com/omics-logic-research-fellowship.

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