Biomedical Informatics Bootcamp

With the evolution of cancer informatics, one of Washington University’s institutional strengths, informatics has become a major emphasis of the Molecular Oncology T32 – Cancer Biology Pathway. As a result, this workshop was developed through a partnership between the Siteman Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination Component, the Siteman Informatics Core Services and the Molecular Oncology T32 – Cancer Biology Pathway. This workshop was hosted in 2022.

Recorded Sessions

Recordings are available with a WUSTL Key. Click HERE for access.



Sessions Include:

  1. Introduction to biomedical data collection, management and representation.
  2. Applied data analytics and data visualization methods in biomedical informatics.
  3. Discovery science utilizing open data with an emphasis on ethical and social issues in biomedical research. Demonstration on how to present biomedical data results.
  4. Introduction & RNAseq
    • Introduction to command line programming and cloud computing (general bioinformatics)
    • Reference genome, transcriptome and other common inputs to bioinformatics analyses (RNAseq)
    • Sequence alignment, assembly, transcript identification and abundance estimation (RNAseq)
    • Demonstration on how one could sign into a cloud compute resource like Amazon, get to a preconfigured virtual machine for command line analysis, walk through a demo of bulk RNAseq analysis from raw data to differential expression analysis, and then point to our online materials for other topics.

Instructors

Zachary Abrams, PhD

Instructor
Biostatistics, Institute for Informatics
WashU Medicine

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Malachi Griffith, PhD

Associate Professor
Department of Medicine – Oncology Division
WashU Medicine

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Obi Griffith, PhD

Professor
Department of Medicine – Oncology Division
Department of Genetics
McDonnell Genome Institute
WashU Medicine

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Contact Us

[email protected]

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