For many years now, Scientists have struggled to help medical practitioners treat their patients according to their symptoms and provided customized healthcare on a personal basis. However, how personal can medicine get? In 2003, researchers obtained a complete human genome from which the sequence and map of all genes in the human body can be used as a reference. With this development we are a step closer to treating cancer and other diseases.
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In my graduate studies, under the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics program, I took Data Mining subjects that dealt with supervised and unsupervised methods of learning that helped shape my interest in Data Science. I worked on a dataset that analyzed the malignant and benign prostate tissues that provided insight into a gene expression signature for prostate cancer. The goal was to conduct several prediction algorithms including principal component regression, elastic nets, partial least squares on the samples containing gene expression profiling by array to accurately predict prostate cancer. It was based on variables like factors that included disease state, and genotype/phenotype variation.
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hai kk
I have some suggestions for you
hope it helps
With this development, << do not forget utilize comma we are a step closer ...
I think you should give a line in here >>> A follow- up analysis was performed,
... pathways and testing the hypothesis using high- throughput data from ...A generic constraint- based on model of cancer metabolism is ...
thanks
Holt Educational Consultant - / 14,797 
4780 Krithika, your SOP borders on becoming a lecture and research paper all in one. Your opening statement is nothing but a lecture that the reviewer has to endure rather than having the reviewer informed about your passion, skills, abilities, and desire to study this particular course for your PhD. While there are portions of your essay that apply to a proper PhD SOP, most of it just presents research material to the reviewer. That is not the kind of information you should present here. Let me break it down for you.
In the first paragraph, talk about yourself, how your interest in computer data enable science and engineering developed, and why you would like to pursue this line of study. Don't make this your autobiography. Just compress all of the information into a single 10 sentence paragraph at the most. It need not be overly long nor descriptive.
As with any higher academic application essay, you are required to summarize both your college education and your masters degree field of study in the second paragraph.Specifically mention your thesis work by title, responsibilities, and outcome of the research. Do not enumerate the classes that you took in college and the masters course as proof of your ability to perform well in the PhD course of your choice. Your thesis paper and subsequent course of actions while developing the paper will be more than capable of doing that for you.
Now, you have actually presented some work on your part that relates to this interest of yours. So I suggest that you improve that presentation in order to show the logical progression to PhD studies on your professional part. Make sure that you highlight the reason why you feel that the current knowledge that you have is no longer sufficient for the future work you want to accomplish.
Finally, make sure that you have indicated enough of your academic interests to prove that you have an actual dissertation project in mind that will cover the proper scope of discipline within the PhD course. This means you have to present a summary of your dissertation proposal for consideration. Mention specific professors from the university or classes that will help you advance in your research. This will show that you are not only familiar with the demands of a PhD course, but that you actually will complete the program because you will work towards gaining experience from notable people at the university. The interactive experience should make the reviewer believe that you are beyond excited to start working on the program at their university.
I believe that by better focusing the content of your paper, and revising majority of the content, your work will have a better chance of being considered for a slot as a PhD student. Good luck with your application.
@Holt,
Thank you so much. That was very helpful and clear as crystal. I am working on it to improve it along the lines you mentioned. Thanks for taking the time to read it.
