Courses in Practical DNA Microarray Analysis 2007

2007 September 24-27 in Dortmund

The course is open for registration.

Application: Please send a short note that explains your existing skills and experience with (a) microarrays, (b) statistics, and (c) computer programming and your motivation for taking this course to t.beissbarth@dkfz.de. Additionally, please tell us your NGFN Förderkennziffer (FKZ), if available. You may use the Registration Form.

If you bring your own laptop, be sure to have installed the following packages:
affy, Biobase, marray, multtest, limma, vsn, arrayMagic, cluster, RColorBrewer, hgu95av2, hgu95av2cdf, estrogen, ALL, annotate, genefilter, multtest, ROC, isis, pamr, e1071, MCRestimate, GlobalAncova, globaltest, GOstats, hgu133a, Rgraphviz.

Datasets and additional packages used in the practical sessions can be found in the data directory, links to the tutorial slides and practical exercises in the table below.

Background Knowledge

Ideally, you are interested in mathematical and statistical problems and are familiar with at least one programming language. This course focusses on the practical side of gene expression data analysis. However, data analysis without understanding the statistical background is in general impossible. We strongly recommend you to refresh your mathematical and programming skills before attending the course.

Please use the links to software and literature to prepare yourself before the course begins.

R and Bioconductor

In the afternoon exercises you will learn how to analyze data using the statistical computing environment R [http://www.r-project.org] and BioConductor [http://www.bioconductor.org], an open source software for bioinformatics. R sources and package sources can be downloaded from The Comprehensive R Archive Network at http://cran.r-project.org.

This is a course in microarray analysis -- not an introduction to R. Please read the Introduction to R before the course begins.

Bring your own data

You are encouraged to bring some of your own data to the course (e.g. genepix files or CEL/CDF). We will use this during the exercises. If you expect to have own data only later in the year, it may in fact be advantageous also to register for one of the later courses.

Participants

Thank you for registering! If you will not be able to attend, please contact Tim Beißbarth as soon as possible so that we can notify the people on the waiting list.

How to find us

We meet Monday, September 24., at 9am. The location and details how to find us will be announced here later.

Accomodation

You will need to make your own accommodation arrangements.

Further information

Please contact Tim Beissbarth: t.beissbarth@dkfz.de.