Students who successfully completes the course will:
- Understand the emerging roles and responsibilities of bioinformaticians in clinic
- Overview the general principles of genomics research, human genome sequence and variations
- Learn the genetic models of inheritance and diseases.
- Review the current software/tools/platforms, and relevant genomic/bioinformatics resources for the analysis of the genomic data
- Gain further experience on computer programming and statistical skills for the analysis of large data sets
- Learn strategies to produce accurate variant lists for further validation, and clinical interpretation