DNA-Chip Analyzer (dChip) introduction video and tutorial

DNA-Chip Analyzer (dChip) is a software package implementing model-based expression analysis of oligonucleotide arrays and several high-level analysis procedures

Training session: Nov. 3, 2004. at Kresge LL-6, training slides, tutorial notes

Motif Discovery Algorithms, by Shirley Liu, Assi. Prof. of Biostatistics, Harvard University.

GeneNotes introduction video and tutorial

In genome-wide profiling project, researchers usually select a couple sets of genes (or ESTs) for further investigation based on the computational analyses of the experimental data. For example, many sets of genes could be clustered together by their mRNA levels. To generate or support biological meaningful hypotheses, researchers need to collect information about the selected genes. Huge amount of information about genes has been accumulated over decades and is distributed world-wide. In addition, there are plenty of online tools (e.g., BLAST, TMHMM, MEME, etc.) offering customizable computations that generate valuable complementary information to researchers' local computational analyses. The success of the project depends on selective, effective, and systematic combination of various information. So far, the most reliable way is the manual endeavors of biologists. It is challenging and labor-intensive to collect and manage information of interest. To facilitate this task, GeneNotes provides an integrated environment for surfing the Internet, recording notes, annotating genes/ESTs, and retrieving notes in the form of text, web pages, images, PDF, word files, and so on.

In this session, we will offer a GeneNotes crash course that help you get started. If you have generated some interesting lists of genes based on your own microarray data, you can bring the lists to the classroom.

Traininng session: Oct. 6,2004.  Wed. 12:00 - 1:20pm, big computer lab classroom - Kresge LL6.