[BBC] [Gtpb] GTPB Course Announcement: ABBTU13 Advanced Biostatistics for Bioinformatics Tool Users

[Pedro Fernandes]

Course announcement

ABBTU13
Advanced Biostatistics for Bioinformatics Tool Users
with Lisete Sousa and Carina Silva-Fortes

IMPORTANT DATES for this Course
    Deadline for applications: June 28th 2013
    Course date: July 8st - July 12th 2013

Candidates with 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 ish to acquire the  
pre-reqested skills via the introductory course IBBTU13 that is  
scheduled for just before. 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. This course is a standalone advanced Biostatistics  
course that can be taken as a continuation of the Introductory  
Biostatistics for Bioinformatics (IBB) course that precedes it in  
GTPB. It is targeted for Biostatistical techniques often employed in  
analytical tools for high throughput data and multivariate data.  
Participants can expect to attend a thorough set of lectures that will  
reveal the conceptual frameworks that are needed to understand the  
methods. Extensive hands-on practice will be the main vehicle for  
providing the skills and user independence. To keep things in context,  
the course is 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. Moreover, proper judgment of the results often calls for a  
deeper level of understanding than what is required to solve scholarly  
exercises.
We will look into particular areas such Simulation, Bayesian  
Inference, Hidden Markov Chains and Multivariate methods with the  
attitude, eyes and brains of a statistician that wants to understand  
how the methods work. and systematic way.

Course Pre-requisites
Intermediate knowledge in Statistics is necessary.
Elementary skills in computer usage are also needed.
We will assume that all the participants have checked their knowledge in:
- probability
- conditional probability
- distributions
- statistical tests
- hypothesis testing
- inference

More information, including "how to apply", detailed schedule, etc.   
is available at:
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/ABBTU13

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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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