What are the three main types of functional analysis?

Functional and enrichment analyses are used to give a biological interpretation to a list of genes or proteins that may be produced from gene expression analysis. This session will introduce three main types of functional analysis and review common tools that are employed: Gene Ontology annotation and enrichment, Gene Set and Pathway enrichment, and network analysis.

This course is part of a series of trainings in biomedical data science offered by the Center for Quantitative Methods and Data Science, Tufts CTSI, and Tufts University Data Intensive Studies Center. For the full list of trainings in this series, please visit the Center for Quantitative Methods and Data Science webpage.

Faculty

This workshop will be taught by Rebecca Batorsky, PhD, Eric Reed, PhD, and Albert Tai, PhD.

Rebecca Batorsky is a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist in Research Technology, part of Tufts Technology Services and a DISC fellow. She earned her PhD in Physics in 2012 from Tufts University, where she focused on mathematical and computational modeling of virus evolution. Before becoming staff at Tufts, she worked as a bioinformatics software developer at a clinical genomics start-up company. Dr. Batorsky works to enable researchers to answer biological questions with data-driven methods, such as analysis of high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing data. She is especially interested in developing methods to use multiple `omics technologies to give insight into biological pathways and processes.

Eric Reed is a Data Scientist in the Data Intensive Studies Center (DISC) at Tufts University. He earned an MS in Biostatistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2015 and a PhD in Bioinformatics from Boston University in 2020. Dr. Reed’s research is focused on working with biomedical researchers to implement cutting-edge high-throughput profiling techniques and develop analytical approaches to better interrogate the biological questions at hand. His dissertation work encompassed advancement of large-scale transcriptomic profiling for toxicogenomic screening. This included the benchmarking scalable library preparation techniques and development of machine learning methods and software. Through numerous collaborative projects, Dr. Reed’s work has led to contributions to various biomedical fields including environmental health, metabolic diseases, oral cancer, breast cancer, Huntington’s disease, and addiction.

Albert Tai is a Research Assistant Professor of Immunology at Tufts University. His research work focuses on providing current research technology to basic research community within and outside of the University, including next generation sequencing (NGS), high throughout screen (HTS), high content screen (HGS), robotics automation and flow cytometry. These technologies, especially NGS and HCS, generates significant amount of data and require specialized analytical approaches. A part of his research centers on creating or optimizing these analytical approaches, via utilizing existing software/pipeline and/or developing new ones. Furthermore, research projects that utilize multiple technologies, or multi-omics, are becoming more popular, a mean to allow association and visualization of multi-omics data is also of interest.

Who should attend

Basic statistical knowledge is required. Computational experience will be helpful, but is not required.

Details

Wednesday, July 28
2:00-3:30PM
Online (a link will be sent to those who register).

Registration

To attend, please register here.

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