[BioC] [BIOC COURSE] CSAMA10 - 14-18/June/2010 - Brixen (Italy)

[stefano iacus]

CSAMA10: Computational Statistics for Genome Biology (Eigth Edition)

This one week intensive course is intended to give insights into recent advances in statistical and computational aspects of the design and interpretation of microarray experiments. The course is intended mainly for researchers with a basic understanding of microarray technology and its statistical and computational challenges. The four practical sessions of the course will be most beneficial for participants that are able to converse in a programming language such as R.


What will it cover? (tentative list)

* Introduction to R and Bioconductor
* RNA-Seq and ChiP-Seq data analysis
* Microarray analysis
* Statistics for differential expression
* Sequence manipulation
* Annotation of genes, genomic features and variants
* Gene set enrichment analysis
* Machine Learning
* High-throughput image analysis

Where? 
Brixen-Bressanone (Alps!), Italy

When? 
14-18  June  2010

Please see
http://marray.economia.unimi.it/

List of speakers (incomplete)
Robert Gentleman, Genentech (USA)
Wolfgang Huber, European Bioinformatics Institute (UK)
Audrey Kauffman, Bergonie Cancer Institute (FR)
Martin Morgan, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (USA)


Best wishes
    Stefano

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Stefano M. Iacus
Department of Economics,
Business and Statistics
University of Milan
Via Conservatorio, 7
I-20123 Milan - Italy
Ph.: +39 02 50321 461
Fax: +39 02 50321 505
http://www.economia.unimi.it/iacus
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