Bioinformatics Core Training Programs

Microarray Workshop I

When:      Thursday April 30, 2009; 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Where:     Library, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
Fee:          Free for graduate students, postdocs and faculty at Maine INBRE institutions

The Maine INBRE Bioinformatics Core will sponsor a hands-on workshop focused on analysis of microarray data.  The workshop is aimed at graduate students, postdocs and faculty at Maine INBRE institutions who are seeking assistance with data analysis using R.   Short presentations will be followed by hands-on exercises with representative Affymetrix and Agilent data sets.  The workshop will not cover in depth the range of available technologies, study design or statistical theory.

Registration: If you would like to attend – please contact Drs. Carolyn Mattingly (cmattin@mdibl.org) or Carol Bult (Carol.Bult@jax.org) by April 23, 2009.

Space is limited to 20 attendees on a first-come first-served basis.

Program

All attendees wanting hands-on capabilities should come to the workshop with R
already installed on their laptop. Instructions for installation can be found here

Background materials:
Quackenbush article, (PDF 2.3MB);
Microarray Tutorial (PDF 2.1MB)

PPT Presentations
Introduction and resources
Preprocessing
Statistical Analysis
Pathway and Enrichment