Machine Learning for the Life Sciences

Period of duration of course
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Course info
Number of course hours
20
Number of hours of lecturers of reference
20
CFU 3
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Modalità esame

Development of a project and presentation

Lecturer

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Prerequisiti

Students are required to attend the course "Introduzione al Machine Learning" by prof. GiannottiStudents with no background in python are recommended to attend the course "Scientific Programming I: Data Processing and Software Prototyping" by Prof. Bloino

Programma

Application of Machine Learning algorithms in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (Prof. Raimondi)

1) Introduction:Key aspects of ML/AI for the life sciences

2) Protein structure prediction using AI

4) Protein language models: protein function prediction

5) Graph neural network to model context-dependent emerging properties

6) Deep Learning for genomics and multi-omics integration

7) practicals: a) functional predictions with protein language models;b) deep learning for genomics (Transcription factor binding prediction); c) multiomics data integration (python)

Obiettivi formativi

Aim of the course is to provide students with basic knowledge of both theoretical foundations and practical aspects of machine learning, with a particular focus on applications to bioinformatics and biology.

Riferimenti bibliografici

Introduction to Machine Learning, Lecture notes. MIT, 2019. https://phillipi.github.io/6.882/2020/notes/6.036_notes.pdf Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, Deep Learning. MIT Press, 2016. 

https://www.deeplearningbook.org/ Bharath Ramsundar, Peter Eastman, Patrick Walters, Vijay Pande, Deep Learning for the Life Sciences, 2019, https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/deep-learning-for/9781492039822/

Ad hoc selected scientific papers