Biostatistics and Bioinformatics approaches are increasingly used in addressing today’s health problems. These two fields aim to produce probabilistic and analytical solutions to problems in medicine and the life sciences. Although these fields overlap in certain aspects, they also have distinct differences.
Advances in modern technologies—particularly developments in next-generation sequencing, transcriptomics, proteomics, and other omics technologies—enable the collection of extremely large datasets. In addition, hospitals’ electronic health records constitute rich databases that contain vast amounts of data. In order to interpret and utilize such data within the perspective of personalized medicine—such as in decision-making for diagnosis and treatment, understanding disease mechanisms, and enabling early detection of diseases—it is necessary to develop advanced biostatistical and bioinformatics methods.
In this program, we aim to teach these two scientific approaches together. We believe this is important because scientists who can acquire these skills simultaneously will make significant contributions to the advancement of science in Türkiye. Although the program we propose does not yet have an equivalent in Türkiye, similar examples exist around the world.
Osman Uğur Sezerman, PhD, Prof.
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