Big Data Analysis for Bioinformatics and Biomedical Discoveries

This book is a practical guide to the nuts and bolts of Big Data, enabling readers to quickly and effectively harness the power of Big Data to make groundbreaking biological discoveries, carry out translational medical research, and implement personalized genomic medicine. Contributing to the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative, the book enhances readers¿ computational and quantitative skills so that they can exploit the Big Data being generated in the current omics era.