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MICROARRAY DATA ANALYSIS
10 May 2007; 1000-1800
Venues: Room A003, Health Sciences Centre, UCD (location) and Room G5, Daedalus Building, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4 (location)

Applications are closed
This course was oversubscribed. If you are interested in a future running of this course, please send an email to education@dmmc.ie

Expression microarray experiments generate large amounts of data, the analysis and interpretation of which is not trivial. In this one-day course, lectures covering important considerations in normalisation, analysis and interpretation of microarray data are followed by a hands-on practical workshop. The practical workshop utilises Bioconductor microarray data analysis software, part of the open source R statistical package, to highlight the principles of good analysis. We recognise that course participants may be using various commercial and non-commercial software packages to analyse their microarray data, but in the interests of time and clarity we have selected Bioconductor as the hands-on teaching tool during this course. Because Bioconductor is freely available (http://www.bioconductor.org) it can also be used by all participants for further study after the course. The principles covered in the practical tutorials will be applicable when using any software. The day concludes with a review of the various microarray data analysis software packages available. Please note, a separate DMMC Course on Microarray Experimental Design runs in April 2007.

The whole course (morning lecture and afternoon hands-on sessions) can accommodate a maximum of 45 attendees.

Thu 10 May; 1000-1300 (Room A003, Health Sciences Centre)
1000 Normalisation Dr Peadar Ó Gaora, UCD
1030 Detection of differentially expressed genes
Dr Patrick Dicker, RCSI
1100 Coffee/Tea
1115 Unsupervised Analysis of Microarrays
Grainne Kerr, DCU
1145 Supervised Analysis of Microarrays
Dr Ian Jeffery, UCD
1215 Introduction to Bioconductor and the data set
Dr John O'Brien, TCD
1300 Lunch
 
Thu 10 May; 1400-1800 (Room G5, Daedalus Building)
1400 Hands-on analysis of microarray data set
Dr Peadar Ó Gaora, Dr John O'Brien, Dr Patrick Dicker and others
1700 Review of microarray data analysis software
Dr Padraig Doolan, DCU

Course Instructors
Dr Patrick Dicker
(Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)
Dr Padraig Doolan (National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology, DCU)

Dr Ian Jeffery (UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science)
Grainne Kerr (Biocomputation Research Lab, School of Computing, DCU)
Dr Peadar Ó Gaora (UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Science)
Dr John O'Brien (Institute of Molecular Medicine, TCD)