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It costs now 299$ now to sequence your genome It is getting cheaper to generate genomic data and more of it is coming through. We can’t see the same trend for the people who can analyze the data. There is always a shortage of people who can do decent analysis of genomic data. We need to train these people. However, the skillset required ,apart from the domain specific knowledge of genomics, is very similar to data science jobs. Some qualified people will go on those route and some people who are trained in genomic data analysis will end up as data scientists in unrelated fields. This pushes the demand for genomic data analysis people higher and higher. Not only there is not enough of them, the ones we have might do something else using the same skillset.

Because of this scarcity but also to decrease our workload in the lab we chose to train people in computational genomics. We have done this for many years. We organized public hands-on courses and provide consultation and mentoring opportunities for people who want to learn how to do genomic data analysis. We see that there is a large demand for genomic data analysis and we can teach those skills.

Now, we organized this material as a book and published via CRC press.

The book contains practical and theoretical aspects of computational genomics. Biology and medicine generate more data than ever before. Therefore, we need to educate more people with data analysis skills and understanding of computational genomics. Since computational genomics is interdisciplinary, this book aims to be accessible for biologists, medical scientists, computer scientists and people from other quantitative backgrounds. We wrote this book for the following audiences:

This resource describes the skills and provides how-to’s that will help readers analyze their own genomics data.

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