Marchine Learning
Written on January 1st , 2023 by Andrea Telatin
What
An introductory seminar, with a focus on the methodologies and a practical workshop by Dr Giovanni Birolo.
Giovanni Birolo is a staff scientist at the Medical Science Department of the University of Turin. Originally trained as a mathematician at the University of Padua, he earned his Ph.D. in mathematical logic before making a not completely deliberate transition to bioinformatics and genomics. During his postdoctoral life, he delved into population genomics, biostatistics, and biomedical data analysis. In the last years he focused on machine learning and prediction in medicine.
When
- March 5th, 2024 (seminar)
- March 7th, 2024 (workshop)
Seminar “What is machine learning and should you care?”
- 5 March 2024, UG55B-C at 14.30
An overview of what happens in genetic studies applying repectively: unsupervised methods (e.g. PCA which results in the genetic structure of the population being resolved), statistical tests (GWAS, to map genes to phenotypes) and prediction methods (e.g. polygenic scores)
Workshop “An introduction to machine learning with Python”
- 7 March 2024, UGUG55B at 14.30 (registration link)
We will use a microbiome dataset to see how to import in python observations (microbiome compositions) and metadata, how to plot a PCA, perform a statistical test to identify interesting taxa, and using a machine learning approach, the Random Forest (already introduced at the Data Science group), to classify our samples.
Repository
- This is a special session of the QIB Data Science Group
- The code is available in a Python notebook
