DS BMED 218Applied Data Science in Genomics and Biomedicine
Data Science in Biomedicine · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction to computational approaches in bioinformatics, genomics, computational genetics, electronic health records, medical images, and other analysis of biomedical data. Topics include emerging methods and their applications to genomics, epigenomics, population genetics, analysis of health records within medical systems, medical imaging, and genomic technologies. Computational techniques include those from statistics and computer science. Satisfies capstone requirement. Students present their results.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 200 or equivalent.
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DS BMED 218
- DS BMED 200Foundations of Data Science
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