2008 Bioinformatics Summer Course

HSPH Workshop on High-Throughput Biological Data Analysis using Bioconductor

Instructor: Associate Professor Vince Carey, Channing Laboratories
Co-founder of the International Bioconductor Project for Statistical Computing in Bioinformatics

FREE to Harvard employees; priority seating given to HSPH affiliates.

3 weeks * 6 sessions
Meeting time: 1:30-4:30 p.m.
Place: Kresge LL6 (Lower level lab)

REGISTER EARLY FOR GUARANTEED ENROLLMENT. Site restricted to 45 people.

Registration is now full.  

Class Schedule and Materials

Trying this outside of class:

Installing R on a Windows machine (R-dev 2.8.0):

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html

This is a development version but should work fine for the level we'll be working at.

Next install Bioconductor from within R:

Notes

If you want an electronic version of the class notes, you can find them here:

[PDF form of the hardcopy of Class Notes] (Large PDF)

Schedule and topics and additional materials:

July 7th: Introduction to R; Genetics of Gene Expression [Lecture slides 1] [Lecture slides 2] [VC R History]

          
July 8th: Genetics of Gene Expression, basics of R [VC R History] 

July 14th: High-Throughout Data Capture, Experimental Design, Linear Models [Affy Data] [Experimental Design Class Notes (PDF)]

July 15th: Data capture, cluster analysis [Class Notes (PDF)]

July 21st: Analyzing for Differential Expression [Class Notes (PDF)]

                Genewise Testing, Getting Back Biological Context, Gene Set Analysis

July 22nd: Modeling, Managing and Analyzing Genome-Scale Data
                    Flexible Predictive Models, HT Sequencing Data