This week, it was the turn of Bioinformatics. The first lecture was mainly focused on "what"s. I had no idea about the things before the lecture and was difficult for me to catch those things. I got to know more about different bioinformatics data like genomes, and proteomes. Dr. Dinu also coverd different biomarkers. He also mentioned about DNA, RNA and Proteins.

In the second lecture, Dr. Dinu talked about how the machines are trained to find the biomarkers and categorize them. He also mentioned about clustering (k-means , 4) and different approaches of doing clustering like average linkage, single linkage, and complete linkage. He mentioned different things about classification of high-grade brain tumors by using gene experession. This week was more informative to me regarding the novelty of contents that we covered in this course. Now it's time to prepare for the mid-term exam of BMI 501 course. Good luck to everyone.

And thanks Laura for the song, it was great. Ashu's animations were also cool.

-Prabal