Computational Genomics Summer Institute CGSI Courses

Privacy-Preserving Techniques for Precision Medicine

Explore privacy-preserving techniques for precision medicine, covering secure genetic data storage, cross-silo federated learning, patient clustering, and homomorphic encryption for genotype imputation.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Conservation of Historic Patient Records from Walter Kempner's Rice Diet for Hypertension

Explore the conservation of historic patient records from Walter Kempner's Rice Diet, gaining insights into hypertension treatment and metabolic disease management.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Understanding the Role of Causality in AI for Healthcare

Explore causality's crucial role in AI for healthcare, focusing on improving patient care, addressing self-fulfilling prophecies, and enhancing treatment outcome predictions.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Improving K-Means Clustering via Simple Iterative Optimization

Explore advanced k-means clustering techniques through simple iterative optimization, enhancing computational genomics analysis and machine learning applications.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Assembling the Tree of Life in Light of Conflicting Signals

Explore phylogenetic tree assembly techniques, addressing conflicting signals in evolutionary data. Learn about quartet-based methods and weighted approaches for reconstructing the Tree of Life.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Examples of MM Algorithms - CGSI 2024

Explore MM algorithms through practical examples, enhancing understanding of their applications in statistics, signal processing, and machine learning.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Topic Models for Multiscale Analysis - CGSI 2024

Explore multiscale analysis of count data using topic models. Learn probabilistic techniques for latent variable modeling in microbiome studies and generative models across disciplines.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Statistical and Computational Algorithms for Analyzing Biobank Data

Explore statistical and computational algorithms for analyzing biobank data, focusing on robust estimation, longitudinal trajectories, and phenotyping disease progression in large-scale electronic health records.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Methods for Analyzing Biobank Data: Statistical, Computational, and Privacy Challenges

Explore statistical, computational, and privacy challenges in analyzing biobank data. Learn scalable methods for estimating SNP heritability, variance components, and gene-environment interactions in complex traits.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

YACHT: An ANI-Based Statistical Test to Detect Microbial Presence or Absence in Metagenomes

Explore YACHT, an ANI-based statistical test for detecting microbial presence in metagenomes. Learn about its applications and implications for microbiome research.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

New Machine Learning Models for Single-cell and Regulatory Genomics

Explore cutting-edge machine learning models for single-cell and regulatory genomics, focusing on enhancer identification, chromatin accessibility analysis, and 3D genome structure prediction.

• YouTube
• 47 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Compression of Phased Sequence Data - CGSI 2024

Explore advanced techniques for compressing phased genomic sequence data, enhancing storage efficiency and analysis capabilities in computational genomics.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Guide to Perform Transcriptomic Deconvolution in Cancer

Explore transcriptomic deconvolution techniques for cancer research, focusing on tumor cell mRNA expression estimation and improved analysis of cell-type ratios in complex tissue samples.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

StocSum: A Reference Panel Free Summary Statistics Framework for Diverse Populations

Explore StocSum, a novel framework for analyzing summary statistics in diverse populations without reference panels. Learn its applications in genomics research and meta-analysis.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Detection of Genetic Variation in Highly Homologous Genes Using Short Read Sequencing

Explore techniques for detecting genetic variations in highly homologous genes using short read sequencing, focusing on challenges and innovative approaches in computational genomics.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video