Antonio Monleon
Position
Lecturer
Qualifications
PhD in Biology
Biography
Antonio Monleon Getino has been associate professor in the Statistics Section at the Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics at the Universitat de Barcelona since 1998. He leads the BIOST3 research group and is director of the expert university course “Data Science Application in Biology and Medicine with Python and R”. His research focuses on the development of biostatic methods, data science and bioinformatics, and he is thesis director for four doctoral theses on these topics. He works with public entities and private companies, as well as on various competitive Spanish and European projects.
Subjects they teach
Biostatistics and Data Analysis
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics
Core
Programme:
Bachelor's Degree in Bioinformatics
Preliminaries on probability and biostatistics using real bioinformatics data. Starting from a bioinformatics research question, the course explores how to design a scientific study and how to get meaningful data. Basic probability concepts, and first principles on estimation and hypothesis testing are covered. R programming language is introduced to explore and visualise data and do basic statistical analysis.
Code:
51205
Créditos:
6 ECTS
Language:
English
Type of subject: Core