Applied Computational Biology Course, 2024

Are you ready to explore the latest advancements in computational molecular biology?

Course: 5ECTS

Join our one-week course covering state-of-the-art methods in computational molecular biology. Topic areas include research in cutting-edge biotechnology sequencing data types, biosustainability, medical genomics, deep learning models for molecular data, and large-scale genome sequence analysis methods. Get hands-on experience, learn from recent research, and showcase your skills through project presentations and a small number of assignments.

Course topics:

Day 1 – Computational molecular biology: challenges and methods

Day 2 – Third-generation sequencing (long-read and single-cell) and analysis methods

Day 3 – Strain design: methods and applications in sustainability

Day 4 – Graph-based methods for genomics in diverse applications

Day 5 – Rewriting genomes, spatial technologies, and data science

Instructors

Shilpa Garg, DTU Biosustain
Russell S. Schwartz, CMU
George Church, Harvard University