Omics Data Science
Bioinformatics and Analysis of large-scale Biomedical Data
The Omics Data Science Course Program – Bioinformatics and Analysis of large-scale Biomedical Data – was developed by the program council and introduced in 2019 at the Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical and Computational Modeling at the University of Warsaw (ICM UW), as part of the „Genetically conditioned diseases – education and diagnostics (EDUGEN)” project co-financed by the European Union under the European Social Fund, Operational Program Knowledge Education Development. Priority axis: IV. Social innovation and transnational cooperation Actions: 4.3 in cooperation with the Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw.
The head of the program is, Catherine Suski-Grabowski, PhD who graduated of the Paris-Saclay University, department of molecular genetics, where she defended her doctoral dissertation on DNA replication. In 2003-2010 she conducted research at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and then at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine Cancer Research Oxford University. In the years 2011-2017 Catherine Suski-Grabowski, PhD, managed a research group at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Currently, Catherine Suski-Grabowski, PhD, is the head of the Omics Data Science bioinformatics course led by the ICM, UW. She is the UW coordinator of the Flagship 1 at the European University 4EU+ concerning Health and Demographic change in an urban environment and she is leading a research team on multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), temporally associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in collaboration with medical doctors from the Medical University of Warsaw and the Wroclaw Medical University.
The OMICS educational project aims to create a new community of scientists, physicians and medical technicians who will be skilled in the new computational techniques and data analysis in modern fields of systemic biology, medicine and genetics. The program prepares participants to tackle specific OMICS issues in the context of medical genetics.
Introductory classes
High-throughput analyzes
Lecturers
Introductory classes
Introductory classes for high-throughput data analysis:
- High-throughput tests in medicine – introduction;
- Infrastructure in high-throughput research;
- Basic IT tools (Python);
- Basic databases and tools for analyzing high-throughput data;
- Basics of analysis using the R package;
- The use of Big Data tools in omics analysis;
- Deep Learning methods in biomedical research;
- Ethical aspects of biomedical high-throughput research.
High-throughput analyzes
This interdisciplinary program consists of six quantitative OMICS and is prepared for students from all fields of science. Students gain knowledge of high-throughput data analysis:
Practical classes for high-throughput data analysis:
Lecturers
Renowned lecturers are leading the course from the best polish institutions:
- Ardigen SA
- Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Institute of Mother and Child
- Jagiellonian University
- M. Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences;
- Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
- Samsung Electronics Polska Sp. z o.o.;
- SmartDataSense;
- Warsaw University
- Warsaw University of Technology
- Wroclaw University of Technology
Partners
Course participants have the opportunity to compare learnt informatics methods with their commercial counterparts. ICM cooperates in this field with the international corporation Illumina Inc. for genomic analysis, as well as with Systems Biology Institute Tokyo – using and developing the Garuda platform – a multi-tool for scientific data analysis. The computational infrastructure of the ICM Technology Center is also used for course purposes.
Partners
Course participants have the opportunity to compare learnt informatics methods with their commercial counterparts. ICM cooperates in this field with the international corporation Illumina Inc. for genomic analysis, as well as with Systems Biology Institute Tokyo – using and developing the Garuda platform – a multi-tool for scientific data analysis. The computational infrastructure of the ICM Technology Center is also used for course purposes.