Lehr- und Forschungseinheit für Datenbanksysteme Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Institut für Informatik
Lehr- und Forschungseinheit für Datenbanksysteme		 University of Munich
Institute for Computer Science
Database and Information Systems

 

Lecture "Kernel Methods in Bioinformatics" in summer semester 2006

Content:

In this lecture, we will present the research topic of kernel methods in bioinformatics. Students will learn the theory behind kernel methods, the most prominent applications in molecular biology and how to utilize kernel methods for their own research projects.
Kernel methods are a family of machine learning algorithms that solve data mining tasks such as classification, principal component analysis and novelty detection. As a first major advantage, kernel methods can be used on structured data, such as strings, graphs and time series which are numerous in biological databases. As a second benefit, kernel learning can be used to fuse several data sources into one similarity measure, when dealing with sources of heterogeneous biological data. Furthermore, kernel methods can deal with missing variables, a problem that frequently occurs in microarray data analysis.

  • Schein: Teilgebiet I für Diplom-Informatiker; Wahlpflichtvorlesung Informatik für Diplom- und Master-Bioinformatiker; ebenfalls anerkannt für Bachelor-Bioinformatiker (Zuordnung spielt beim Bachelor keine Rolle)
  • Stundenanzahl: 2 + 2 SWS
  • Voraussetzungen: Vordiplom Bioinformatik oder Vordiplom Informatik
  • Kurssprache: Englisch
  • Vorlesung: Karsten Borgwardt, Dr. Cheng Soon Ong
  • Übungen: Karsten Borgwardt
    • Veranstaltung Zeit Ort Beginn
    Vorlesung Mo, 10.00 - 12.00 Uhr Raum .23 (Oettingenstr. 67) 24.04.2006
    Übung Mi, 16.00 - 18.00 Uhr Raum .23 (Oettingenstr. 67) 03.05.2006

    Lectures:

    Lecture date Topic
    Monday, April 24th 2006 Organisation
    Introduction to Machine Learning

    Exercises:

    For all your homework, please use the following Frontpage

    Homework sheet Publication date Hand-in date
    Sheet 1 Monday, April 24th 2006 Wednesday, May 3rd 2006, by 16:15

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