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Overview
Key facts
The aim of this microcredential is to enable students to gain the knowledge and understanding required to critically analyse bioinformatics data in genomic research, develop the skills to formulate their own research questions, as well as to collect, apply and interpret NHS genomic data sets using a basic range of statistical and bioinformatics techniques.
University of Birmingham's Bioinformatics, Interpretation and Data Quality Assurance in Genome Analysis programme will teach you more about this topic.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Assessment of data quality through application of quality control and statistical measures.
- Aligning genome data to reference sequence using up-to-date alignment algorithms.
- Measures to determine the analytical sensitivity and specificity of genomic tests.
- Tools to call sequence variants, and annotate variant-call files using established resources.
- Use of multiple database sources (for example, EVS, dbSNP, ClinVar etc.), data integration tools, clinical literature, and statistical evidence to prioritise variants for pathogenicity.
- Principles of integration of laboratory and clinical information, and location of best practice guidelines for indicating the clinical significance of results (for example, American College of Medical Genetic and Genomics (ACMG), and UK guidelines for bioinformatics and variant classification).
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 5 days
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Credits
15 alternative credits
Delivered
On Campus
Disciplines
Data Science & Big Data Bioinformatics & Biostatistics Operations and Quality Management View 4 other Short Courses in Bioinformatics & Biostatistics in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
This microcredentialcan be taken as a stand-alone assessed or non-assessed course. You should have a good honours degree in a life sciences subject, although we will consider applicants with alternative qualifications and professional experience within the health service or other relevant background. You should either take (An Introduction to Human Genetics and Genomics) and (Omics Techniques and their Application to Genomic Medicine) first, or be able to show you have equivalent knowledge and understanding to enable you to benefit from this module.
Tuition Fee
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International
1830 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1830 GBP for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
1000 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1000 GBP for the full programme during 5 days.
Living costs for Birmingham
765 - 1134 GBP /month
Living costs
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