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Mining Library and University Data to Understand Library Use…

Library data are often hard to analyze because these data come from unconnected sources, and the data sets can be very large. Furthermore, the desire to protect user privacy has prevented the retention of data that could be used to correlate library data to non-library data. The research team used data mining to determine library use patterns and to determine whether library use correlated to students’ grade point average. Read more “Mining Library and University Data to Understand Library Use Patterns” →

Courses

New Biomedical Data Science Course

Biomedical Data Science is a new 500/600 level course, cross listed between the Departments of Biology and Computer Science. The goal of this course is to teach students how to turn data into information. Students will learn the necessary computational skills for the analysis of genomic data sets. Read more “New Biomedical Data Science Course” →

Workshops - Archived

Software Carpentry Python Workshop 5/8-9/2015

Software Carpentry Workshop in Python May 18-19, 2015 | 9:00 AM-4:30 PM This is a two-day workshop, jointly hosted by the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and IDSC. Read more “Software Carpentry Python Workshop 5/8-9/2015” →

Events - Past

IDSC Fellows Symposium features Janet Iwasa

The second annual IDSC Fellows Symposium took place on Friday, April 17, 2015, and opened with a presentation by Janet Iwasa, PhD, from University of Utah’s Dept. of Biochemistry. Read more “IDSC Fellows Symposium features Janet Iwasa” →

Publications

Essentiality and Centrality in Protein Interaction Networks Revisited

Minimum dominating sets (MDSet) of protein interaction networks allow the control of underlying protein interaction networks through their topological placement. While essential proteins are enriched in MDSets, we hypothesize that the statistical properties of biological functions of essential genes are enhanced when we focus on essential MDSet proteins (e-MDSet). Read more “Essentiality and Centrality in Protein Interaction Networks Revisited” →

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Protein Interaction Networks Revisited

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3D Imaging of Axons in Transparent Spinal Cords from…

The histological assessment of spinal cord tissue in three dimensions has previously been very time consuming and prone to errors of interpretation. Advances in tissue clearing have significantly improved visualization of fluorescently labelled axons. Read more “3D Imaging of Axons in Transparent Spinal Cords from Rodents & Nonhuman Primates” →

VizUM

Design for Visualization Workshop 2/18/2015

Design for Visualization Workshop: A Workshop on Charts, Maps, Infographics, and Scientific Posters. This class covers the main principles of visualization for science communication. No previous experience is required. Read more “Design for Visualization Workshop 2/18/2015” →

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Prognostic Models in Coronary Artery Disease: Cox and Network…

Predictive assessment of the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases is usually provided by computational approaches centered on Cox models. The complex interdependence structure underlying clinical data patterns can limit the performance of Cox analysis and complicate the interpretation of results, thus calling for complementary and integrative methods. Read more “Prognostic Models in Coronary Artery Disease: Cox and Network Approaches” →

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Distinct Transcriptomic Features and B-Cell Populations in the Mouse…

Splenic transitional B-cells (T1 and T2) are selected to avoid self-reactivity and to safeguard against autoimmunity, then differentiate into mature follicular (FO-I and FO-II) and marginal zone (MZ) subsets. Transcriptomic analysis by RNA-seq of the five B-cell subsets revealed T1 cell signature genes included RAG suggesting a potential for receptor revision. Read more “Distinct Transcriptomic Features and B-Cell Populations in the Mouse Spleen” →