Detailed information about the course
Title | Introduction to Biological Network Analysis |
Dates | 29-31 October 2018 |
Lang | Workshop language is English |
Responsable de l'activité | Ioannis Xenarios |
Organizer(s) | Dr Grégoire Rossier, Vital-IT |
Speakers | Prof. John Scooter Morris, University of California, USA Dr. Mark Ibberson, Vital-IT, Lausanne, CH Leonore Wigger, UNIL / Vital-IT, Lausanne, CH |
Description | Overview
The course will introduce the basic concepts of biological network analysis and provide practical instruction on commonly used bioinformatics tools to analyse and visualize biological networks. The course will comprise theoretical and practical sessions where course participants will gain practical knowledge on how to perform different biological network analyses and how to visualize and interpret the results of such analyses. This 3-day course will be followed by a one-day workshop about advanced usage of Cytoscape by Dr. Scooter Morris (separate registration, the link will be provided soon).
Audience
This course is addressed to biologists and bioinformaticians with some experience in analysing biological data. Intermediate level.
Learning objectives
At the end of the course, the participants are expected to:
Prerequisites
Knowledge / competencies
Participants should have a basic working knowledge of R and be familiar with working with and manipulating biological data.
Technical
You are required to bring your own laptop, installed with the latest version of the R Studio and Cytoscape software. |
Program | Brief course programDay 1: Data analysis & visualization in Cytoscape Day 2 AM: Data analysis & visualization in Cytoscape Day 2 PM: Weighted Gene Correlation Network Analysis (WGCNA) Day 3: Weighted Gene Correlation Network Analysis (WGCNA) |
Location |
UNIL, Génopode room 2020 |
Information | The course will start at 9:00 and end around 17:00. Precise information will be provided to the participants on due time. |
Expenses | Free for CUSO PhD students *Academic other: CHF 180.- For-profit: CHF 900.-
*Academic fee includes non for-profit organisations, as well as unemployed participants at the time of application.
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Registration | 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"). |
Places | 30 |
Deadline for registration | 19.10.2018 |