2010 Course Content

Exploratory Data Analysis and Essential Statistics using R

Location: Vancouver BC
Date: May 6-7, 2010

Interpreting Gene Lists from -omics Studies

Location: Downtown Toronto, ON
Date: July 15-16, 2010

Exploratory Data Analysis and Essential Statistics using R

Location: Toronto ON
Date: September 30 - October 1, 2010

Informatics on High Throughput Sequencing Data

Location: Toronto Date: July 29-30, 2010 in Toronto, ON

  • Module 1: Informatics on High Throughput Sequencing Data (Faculty: Francis Ouellette)
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  • Module 2: File Types (Faculty: Asim Siddiqui)
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  • Module 3: RNA Seq (Faculty: Ryan Morin)
    PDF | PPT | MP4 (VIDEO) | M4V (IPOD)
  • Module 4: Genome variation - SNPs (Faculty: Michael Stromberg)
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  • Module 5: Data management (Faculty: Asim Siddiqui)
    PDF | PPT | MP4 (VIDEO) | M4V (IPOD)
  • Module 6: Visualization (Faculty: Francis Ouellette)
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Ensembl-EBI Browser and Toolkit workshop

Location: Toronto ON
Date: September 7-8, 2010

  • Introduction (Faculty: Xosé Fernández from EBI)
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  • Guided tour of the most important pages of the Ensembl website (Faculty: Xosé Fernández from EBI)
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  • Evaluating genes and transcripts: how are Ensembl gene and transcripts predictions made? (Faculty: Xosé Fernández from EBI)
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  • Variations: SNPs, haplotypes, linkage disequilibrium (Faculty: Xosé Fernández from EBI)
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  • Data mining with BioMart: retrieving datasets using the data mining tool BioMart (Faculty: Xosé Fernández from EBI)
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Clinical Genomics and Biomarker Discovery

Location: Toronto ON
Date: September 23-24, 2010

  • Module 1: Introduction to Biomarkers (Faculty: Sohrab Shah)
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  • Identifying candidate biomarkers from a high-dimensional data set (Faculty: Sohrab Shah)
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  • Module 3: Clinical Omics and 'personalized medicine' (Faculty: Anna Lapuk)
    PDF | | PART 1 MP4 (VIDEO) | M4V (IPOD) PART 2 MP4 (VIDEO) | M4V (IPOD)
  • Module 4: Survival Analysis (Faculty: Anna Lapuk)
    PDF | | MP4 (VIDEO) | M4V (IPOD)