BFG12 Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics using R |
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Instructors: |
Javier de Las Rivas MSc, PhD, is a CSIC Research Scientist and PI of the Bioinformatics
and Functional Genomics group at the Cancer Research Center (IBMCC, CSIC/USAL) in Salamanca (
Spain). He is biochemist and after postdoctoral stays in London (Imperial College, IC) and
New York (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, MSSM) he started his current research group in 2002,
focusing his studies on the development and application of bioinformatics and computational
biology to the field of cancer genomics and proteomics. |
Celia Fontanillo MsEng, is a young scientist, with a degree in Computer
Science, who has been working at the Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics group of
the Cancer Research Center (IBMCC, CSIC/USAL) in Salamanca (Spain) for five years. Her
expertise is centered in the development of algorithms and methods in bioinformatics and
genomics. |
Course description |
This is a practical course on Bioinformatics applied to analysis of Gene expression and Genomic
data using mainly R and Bioconductor tools and algorithms. The course will focus in the use of
robust methods to analyse microarray datasets, mainly from Affymetrix platform and from
clinical-biomedical studies, integrating several strategies to achieve an optimum construction
and analyses of gene expression profiles.
The Course will be mostly practical using computers and prepared protocols. |
Target AudienceResearchers in Biology and Biomedical areas (PhD students, PostDocs or Senior) working with genomic and gene expression data or with gene lists in general, that what to learn useful and powerful tools and methods for bioinformatic analysis. |
Course Pre-requisitesBasic familiarity with genomic data and bioinformatics data resources. Minimum familiarity with R (although most scripts and command lines will be provided with written tutorials). |
Detailed description |
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