Week 2 - Gene-Disease Association Prediction

Summary from Week 1:

  • The majority of students voted to work on a project involving Machine Learning in the domain of Bioinformatics.

  • In the Bioinformatics focus meeting led by Anya, an interesting addition was proposed: incorporating network structure as a feature in the machine learning model (credit: @moneuron).

  • The Machine Learning focus meeting led by Sam covered the initial steps in detail. All details can be found in the post.

  • Github setup started by @Prasun_Sharma

  • A more detailed summary will be shared by end of day for those who need additional guidance. For the next meeting, all members should try and complete:

    • Downloading data manually or via api
    • Creating a network
    • Visualizing the network (see entries from @Moh_Saiger and @hahaharsini
    • Coding a basic ml model for gene-disease association.

Please try out this example if you are new to ML or need a refresher: 🔸 Code Along for F-IE-1: Text Classification using NLP