Elements of R for Genetics and Bioinformatics - Module 3 - Swiss Institute in Statistical Genetics

3 - 5 September 2014

Jérôme Goudet

A joint course with the Doctoral Program in Organismal Biology
Prof. Jérôme Goudet, University of Lausanne (CH) & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Prof. Bruce Weir, University of Washington (US)

Prof. Thomas Lumley, University of Auckland (NZ)
Prof. Kenneth Rice, University of Washington (US)

This module introduces programming skills required for analysis of genetic data, in the R statistical environment.

The module assumes prior knowledge of R. We will briefly review how R scripts are built up from interactive commands, and then discuss how to turn these into R programs based on user-defined functions.

We will cover R’s debugging system, its tools for enhancing efficiency of code, and its methods for handling errors and warnings. In many genomic applications, R packages already exist to perform specialized statistical and bioinformatic analyses, and we will introduce packages for handling large datasets, and the Bioconductor repository of genomic packages.

University of Lausanne

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Active Participation

!PREREQUISITE!
Have attended the course "An Introduction to R" or a similar course.

When?
3-5 September 2014
8:30-12:00 and 13:30-17:00

Where?
University of Lausanne, Biophore, Amphitheater.

Information:
- Please bring your laptop to the course!

Questions?
Caroline Betto-Colliard
@: [email protected]
Phone: +41 (0)21 692 42 44

Course attendance:
Free for participants belonging to a CUSO University (UniBE, UniFR, UniGE, UniL & UniNE) and PhD students of the DP-biol.

300CHF for Academic participants

600CHF for Non-Academic participants

PhD students of the DPEE are eligible for reimbursement of incurred travel expenses by train (half-fare card, and 2nd class) and meals. Please send the original tickets (no copies, except for the general abonnement) and receipts with the reimbursement form to Caroline Betto-Colliard. For PhD students of the DP-biol, please check the reimbursement conditions on the DP-Biol website.

CUSO PhD students: through your MyCUSO account. 

External participants (non-CUSO PhD students, post-docs, etc...): use the icon "registration" at top of page and the last gray box "non-CUSO student" ("personne hors myCUSO").

Priority is given to PhD students of the DPEE and the DP-biol until April 15th, 2014.
After this deadline, first-come, first-served!
Registration Deadline: August 22th, 2014

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