[BBC] [Gtpb] GTPB Course Announcement: IBBTU13 Introductory Biostatistics for Bioinformatics Tool Users

[Pedro Fernandes]

Course announcement

IBBTU13
Introductory Biostatistics for Bioinformatics Tool Users
with Ana Luisa Papoila and Fernanda Diamantino

    IMPORTANT DATES for this Course
    Deadline for applications: June 21st 2013
    Course date: July 1st - July 5th 2013

Candidates with the adequate profile will be accepted in the next 72  
hours after the application, until we reach 20 participants.


NOTE: Some participants in this course may be interested in the  
advanced course ABBTU13 that is scheduled for right after. In that  
case separate applications are required.

Course description
This is one of our "Foundations" type courses, providing a systematic  
and detailed review of fundamental concepts and techniques used in  
Bioinformatics. Many analytical and inferential methods, regardless of  
their novelty, have their niches of application all over the place in  
Bioinformatics. We will be looking at statistical methods, digging  
into their inner workings, wearing the skins of professional  
statisticians. Participants can expect a thorough set of lectures that  
will reveal the conceptual frameworks that are needed to understand  
the methods, and extensive hands-on practice, exclusively based on  
biological examples.

Methodology
The course will introduce a relatively high number of concepts and  
methods. To keep it highly practical, we will spend most of the time  
in hands-on sessions.
- We will focus on each method using examples taken from real world  
Bioinformatics practice.
- We will then dissect the method, identifying the concepts and  
exploring their interrelationships.
- The applicability and limitations of each method will be emphasized.
- The use of the method will be illustrated using appropriate  
Bioinformatics tools and biological data resources.

Target Audience
Everybody using Bioinformatics methods is implicitly using statistical  
methods. Most people have had one or more semester courses in  
Statistics in their graduate education. For many, Statistics happened  
in their lives a long time ago, and that makes it difficult to go back  
and manipulate the concepts with full confidence. Attending this  
course is a chance of revisiting subjects like experimental design,  
hypothesis testing, inference and prediction in an intensive and  
systematic way.

More information, including "how to apply", detailed schedule, etc.   
is available at:
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/IBBTU13

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Pedro Fernandes
GTPB Coordinator
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Apartado 14
2781-901 OEIRAS
PORTUGAL
Tel +351 21 4407912
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt





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