Graduate Certificate in Big Data Analytics in Precision Medicine

Programme Highlights

Organised by the Department of Biochemistry, the Graduate Certificate in Big Data Analytics in Precision Medicine aims to provide foundational knowledge and skills for learners to apply appropriate statistical approaches in evaluating and analysing high-throughput datasets in precision medicine.

It provides the foundational knowledge and skills for big data processing by leveraging on high performance computing resources of the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC). Learners will be introduced to the theory and application of high-performance systems covering HPC architecture and workflows as well as approaches to accelerate analytical pipelines.

Benefits of Attending

Learners should be able to:

• Explain principles of statistical modelling of data for precision medicine
• Explain the challenges of analyzing high throughput datasets for precision medicine
• Design high throughput experiments in precision medicine to minimize confounders and increase statistical power to detect differences
• Evaluate data quality (batch effects, missing data, noise) and perform preprocessing where appropriate (batch correction, imputation, normalization)
• Analyze high throughput data to find and evaluate differences in samples using appropriate statistical tools
• Evaluate and explain the runtime complexity of algorithms used in analysing data for precision medicine
• Describe the architecture of high-performance systems and relate it to the latencies in processing data
• Evaluate data processing workflows and identify bottlenecks using profiling methods
• Explain the different models of parallel computing
• Evaluate and identify suitable applications that utilize parallel computing for accelerating workflows
• Parallelize a high-throughput workflow and optimize the bottlenecks where necessary
• Containerize applications and binaries for reproducible computing in a shared HPC environment

Minimum Entry Requirement

Applicants must have a Bachelor’s degree and may be required to show relevant work experience. Applicants with other qualifications and experience may be considered on a case by case basis, subject to approval by the school.

• Executive Certificate in Applied Statistics for Precision Medicine: Basic knowledge of R language
• Executive Certificate in High Performance Computing for Precision Medicine: Familiarity with Linux environment

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