Machine Learning for Life Sciences

Anno accademico 2023/2024
Docente Francesco Raimondi

Modalità d'esame

Prova orale

Prerequisiti

Students are required to attend the course "Introduzione al Machine Learning" by prof. Giannotti

Students with no background in python are recommended to attend the course "Scientific Programming I: Data Processing and Software Prototyping" by Prof. Bloino

Programma insegnamento

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)

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