Cure Aging with AI - Part 1/6 Importing Data with Pandas

We will start coding!
(Meeting for Thursday 4th of July is cancelled because of the holiday. Future meetings will be on Wednesdays at Bella Vista 6-8 pm)

Agenda

• Recap of last meeting and overview of the code on a big screen
• Biology introduction to the central dogma of biology
  DNA ->RNA->Protein & RNAseq
• Setup Google Colab notebook and connect it to google drive
• Loading and merging study data with python pandas module
• Feature selection
  Colored code can be found in our Slack Channel under meeting-recaps:

You can prepare by watching these youtube videos:
Biology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG7uCskUOrA
Python Pandas Data Frame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6kmIpWWEdU

[Short recap from meeting Thurs 6/27th:
Our project goals:

• 1. Reproducing the AI study: 'Predicting age from transcriptome of human fibroblasts'
     https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-018-1599-6

2. Evaluating study using our own data set

• Future Meetings will be held on a weekly basis on Wednesdays at the Bella Vista Cafe in La Jolla
• Meetings will be structured into a theoretical and practical part

1. Tutors will explain the code sections to group members (1 hr)
2. Members will reproduce the code in small groups with help of tutors.(1 hr)

• Software: Python and Google Colab]