Immunoinformatics of Cancers

Professor Nima Rezaei gained his medical degree (MD) from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and subsequently obtained an MSc in Molecular and Genetic Medicine and a PhD in Clinical Immunology and Human Genetics from the University of Sheffield, UK. He also spent a short-term fellowship of Pediatric Clinical Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplantation in the Newcastle General Hospital. Professor Rezaei is now the Full Professor of Immunology and Vice Dean of Research, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and the co-founder and Head of the Research Center for Immunodeficiencies. He is also the founding President of the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN). Professor Rezaei has already been the Director of more than 55 research projects and has designed and participated in several international collaborative projects. Professor Rezaei is an editorial assistant or board member for more than 30 international journals. He has edited more than 35 international books, has presented more than 500 lectures/posters in congresses/meetings, and has published more than 1,000 scientific papers in the international journals. Parnian Jabbari is a Medical Doctor at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, and a member of the Network of Immunity in Infection, Malignancy & Autoimmunity (NIIMA). She also works with the Universal Scientific Education & Research Network (USERN), based in Tehran, Iran.

Section I
1. Introduciton to cancer immunology
2. Introduction to bioinformatics
3. Practical databases in immunoinformatics

Section II
4. Principles of R programming
5. R programming in bioinformatics
6. Principle R packages in immunoinformatics

Section III
7. Introduction to machine learning
8. Naïve Bayes in R
9. Regressions in R
10. Linear and quadratic discriminant analysis
11. Support-vector Machine in R
12. Decision trees in R
13. Random forests in R
14. Neural Network in R
15. K Nearest Neighbour in R
16. Practice examples