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Biomedical Information Technology

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States20.453J
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2008English
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This course teaches the design of contemporary information systems for biological and medical data. Examples are chosen from biology and medicine to illustrate complete life cycle information systems, beginning with data acquisition, following to data storage and finally to retrieval and analysis. Design of appropriate databases, client-server strategies, data interchange protocols, and computational modeling architectures.

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