EMBO Practical Course on Analysis and Informatics of Microarray Data

The main objective of this course is to introduce the participants to advanced bioinformatics, statistical methodologies and software tools for analyzing and managing microarray data.

This course is aimed at advanced PhD students and post-doctoral researchers who are applying or planning to apply microarray technologies and bioinformatics methods in their research. Participants who have already performed microarray based experiments are encouraged to bring their own data to analyze it during the last practical session of the course.

Over the past few years, microarrays have become an established technology in molecular biology, used in an increasing number of laboratories. A growing wealth of data analysis tools is available to researchers of different levels of expertise, and several courses on microarray data analysis are given annually by EMBO and other organizations.Nevertheless, data analysis is still a major bottleneck for many researchers which are still applying inadequate statistical methods for the interpretation of their microarray results. At the same time new, increasingly more sophisticated microarray platforms are introduced and new analysis methods are being developed.

The aim of this course is to familiarize the participants with such advanced methodologies and provide hands-on training on the latest analytical approaches.

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