BMEG3105: Data analytics for personalized genomics and precision medicine-Fall 2021

[Pre-course survey, Piazza, Scribing preference, Logistics, Course schedule and materials, Assignments]

Course description

With social-economic development, people are increasingly caring about health. Consequently, in the field of genomics and healthcare, especially personalized genomics and precision medicine, we have accumulated a tremendous amount of data, which are waiting to be analyzed. This course is designed to equip students with the ability to analyze such data, which would benefit both the students’ personal development and society. In the course, we will cover high-throughput experimental methods, standard data processing pipelines, sequence alignment and mapping, foundational concepts of data analytics, data exploration and visualization, clustering and classification, dimension reduction, and their applications in personalized genomics and precision medicine. For personalized genomics, we will also cover the integration of heterogeneous sequencing and non-sequencing data, single-cell data analysis, multi-omics analysis methods, and cancer genomics. For precision medicine, we will cover protein-RNA interactions, biological graph analysis, and a gentle introduction to biomedical imaging and electronic health records.

Teaching team

Lecturer: Yu LI (liyuATcse.cuhk.edu.hk), SHB-106. Office hour: 3pm-5pm, Friday
TA:
Licheng ZONG (lczong21ATcse.cuhk.edu.hk), SHB-1026. Office hour: 3pm-5pm, Monday
Xinyi ZHOU (xyzhou21ATcse.cuhk.edu.hk), SHB-903. Office hour: 9am-11am, Thursday

Time and location

Wednesday: 9:30am-11am, SC-L3.
Friday: 9:30am-10:15am, ERB-803.
Friday: 10:30-11:15am, ERB-803. Tutorial

Format

Mixed. Slides will be available the day before the lecture day. Video recordings will be available after the lecture.

Logistics

Communications

Blackboard is the main software to manage the course, and grading will be through blackboard. We will use Piazza (BMEG3105) for discussion. You can ask questions through Piazza, even anonymously. For a personal matter, please use the private post to the instructor and the TA. You are also very welcomed to send emails to the instructor and TAs.

Grading

Bonus (up to 6%): One bonus question in Midterm. One additional scribing: 1%. Pre-course survey + Post-lecture survey: 0.5% for each, and the maximum is 3%. I do encourage you to complete all of them so that to let me know your feedback and adjust the course accordingly. Send your names to the TA.

Open-book quiz and exam policy

All exams and quiz are open-book. You are allowed to take any paper-based materials. However, no phone or computer is allowed. Other communication tools are also not allowed. Discussion is not allowed.

Programming

Python (the TA will prepare a recitation class to introduce it, mainly for the non-grading homework and your project) or any other you are familiar with. For python, we suggest you to use Colab.
The programming credits include Non-grading assignment (10%) and Grading programming included in the project (5%). The bonus is sufficient to cover all the programming credit. If you really do not want to try hand-on experiments at all. We do encourage you try.

Scribing

Please sign Scribing preference. We should have at least one student for each lecture. We may adjust the assignment if necessary. Notice that your note and scribing will be posted online, for others reference. You can choose to remove your name or not. Deadline for signing the scribing: 11:59 pm on 12th Sep. After that, the Google sheet will be closed.

Projects

We will do the project individually. You can give us your project and seek our help or we will predefine some projects for you to choose. Some potential projects:

Both the mid-term report (1 page) and the final report should be submitted.

Late days

Each student will have 6 late days to turn in assignments, which can be used on A1, A2, A3, PA1, and the project mid-term report. They cannot be used on the project final report and the scribing note. A maximum of 2 late days can be used for each assignment. Grades will be deducted by 25% for each additional late day.

Post-lecture survey

Deadline for each survey: 11:59pm on the day before the next lecture. We do this because I could have time to answer the questions you mentioned in the survey. Please fill 1 in the Google sheet: Survey results, once you have finished one survey. Usually, we will trust the 1s you fill in the Google sheet. But we will check the things in detail if the number of survey forms we received and the number of 1s on the Google sheet is not consistent.

Course schedule and materials

Lecture Date Location Topic Slides/Video Notes Reading Important dates (All due at 11:59 pm)
1 Sep 8 (Wed) SC-L3 Introduction Course Outline, YouTube Note-1, Note-2 Learning objectives  
2 Sep 10 (Fri) ERB-803 Data & Python YouTube Note-1, Note-2 Sample code PA 0 posted
3 Sep 15 (Wed) SC-L3 Sequence and DP YouTube Note-1, Note-Wang,Han-Yi Sample code, Chapter 2&3 PA0 due
4 Sep 17 (Fri) ERB-803 Assembly & Mapping Makeup video YouTube Note-1, Note-2 RNA-seq analysis A1 posted
- Sep 22 (Wed) - - - - - Mid-Autumn Festival
5 Sep 24 (Fri) ERB-803 Data exploration YouTube Note-1, Note-2 Repetitive DNA, Python for DA, Sample code, Sample code-2  
6 Sep 29 (Wed) SC-L3 Clustering YouTube Note-1, Note-2, Note-3 Data mining book A1 due
- Oct 1 (Fri) - - - - - National Day
7 Oct 6 (Wed) SC-L3 Clustering & Classification YouTube Note-1, Note-2 Data mining book, Correlation A2 posted
8 Oct 8 (Fri) ERB-803 Classification YouTube Note-1 Data mining book  
9 Oct 13 (Wed) SC-L3 Perf evaluation       Cancelled due to typhoon
10 Oct 15 (Fri) ERB-803 Perf evaluation YouTube Note-Chan, Wai Shing, Note-1 Data mining book  
11 Oct 20 (Wed) SC-L3 Mid-term review YouTube Note-CHAN, Chi Chung, Note-1, Note-2, Note-3   ParticipationQ, A2 due
12 Oct 22 (Fri) ERB-803 - - - - 8:30am-11:15am, Mid-term
      Module 2 start        
13 Oct 27 (Wed) SC-L3 Dim reduction YouTube Note-LI, Xuanxuan, Note-FUNG, Cheuk Wa, Note-1, Note-2 PML book PA1 posted
14 Oct 29 (Fri) ERB-803 Multi-omics & cancer genomics overview YouTube Note-1, Note-2, Note-3 Intro to cancer, Cancer genomics  
15 Nov 3 (Wed) SC-L3 TUT        
16 Nov 5 (Fri) ERB-803 Cancer genomics YouTube Note-WONG, Wing Hei, Note-1, Note-2 Cancer genomics, GATK, GWAS, Epigenetics, ENCODE  
17 Nov 10 (Wed) SC-L3 Single cell & visualization YouTube Note-LO, Yue Lung Edison, Note-1 Current best practice, Tutorial-1, Tutorial-2, Tutorial-3, Clustering challenges Project M-report
18 Nov 12 (Fri) ERB-803 Protein-RNA YouTube Note-CHAN, Yun Lam, Note-LO, Yue Lung Edison Sequence motif, PCA-tSNE-UMAP  
      Module 3 start        
19 Nov 17 (Wed) SC-L3 Deep learning YouTube Note-1, Note-2 Pytorch examples PA1 due, A3 posted
20 Nov 19 (Fri) ERB-803 How to present YouTube Note-1 Pytorch examples  
21 Nov 24 (Wed) SC-L3 EHRs & How to learn YouTube Note-1, Note-2, Note-3 EHRs processing  
22 Nov 26 (Fri) ERB-803 Project pres Presentation schedule     A3 due
23 Dec 1 (Wed) SC-L3 Course review YouTube     ParticipationQ
24 Dec 3 (Fri) ERB-803 Project pres Presentation schedule     Project report

Assignments