Definitions, Paradigms, and Tasks

CSI 5180 - Machine Learning for Bioinformatics

Important

I have now published the descriptions for both the presentation and the project on the course website. You can access them through the following links:

• Presentation Description (selection due: February 7, 2025)
• Project Description (outline due: Febrary 14, 2025)

Prepare

You might want to watch or re-watch the following video.

• Not What but Why: Machine Learning for Understanding Genomics | Barbara Engelhardt | TEDxBoston

Participate

• slides

Practice

Three notebooks from Aurélien Géron introducing essential concepts for machine learning. In the coming weeks, you might want to go through these at your own pace.

• numpy – a fundamental library centered around N-dimensional array objects.
• pandas – powerfull data analysis tools, centered around the DataFrame.
• visualization – demonstrates how to use the matplotlib to produce beautiful graphs.