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Lecture 1 Introduction: Computer Science Meets Life Science

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At the end of this first lecture, you:

  • would be fascinated to see our world in data.

  • would have a basic understanding of the building blocks of life.

  • would be familiar with some differences between Life Sciences and Computer Sciences.

  • would be aware of some possibilities and some limits of Biomedical Informatics.

  • would have some ideas of some future directions of Biomedical Informatics.

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