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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">This is a great opportunity for both novice and experienced users of genomic data to learn about ENCODE resources and how to leverage them for their own research. The meeting will take place
<strong>June 8th - June 10th, 2016</strong>, at the Stanford Li Ka Shing Center, at 219 Campus Drive, Palo Alto CA, and will feature:</p>
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٭ Hands-on training workshops to learn to navigate, analyze, and integrate ENCODE and mouse ENCODE data into your research. No programming experience required.<br>
٭ Leading-edge research applications from distinguished invited speakers.<br>
٭ Tutorials on newly-available informatics pipelines that greatly facilitate working with ENCODE data.<br>
٭ Short talks selected from abstracts.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ Mathieu Lupien, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre </p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ Katherine Pollard, The Gladstone Institute at UCSF</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ Tim Reddy, Duke University</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ Bing Ren, University of California, San Diego</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ Yijun Ruan, The Jackson Laboratory</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ Barbara Stranger, University of Chicago</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ Zhiping Weng, University of Massachusetts Medical School</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ Grace Xiao, University of California, Los Angeles</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ Viewing, querying, and downloading ENCODE data</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ Running ENCODE processing pipelines on your own data (including ChIP-seq, eCLIP-seq, RNA-seq, DNase-seq, DNA methylation)</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ Integrating ENCODE data with those from your lab or other major projects</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ Using ENCODE data to interpret human variation, personal genomes, and disease (including cancer) genomes</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ Connecting regulatory elements to their target genes across the genome</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ Integrative analysis</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">٭ See the website for more details about training workshops</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:center">We look forward to seeing you at Stanford University!</p>
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<p style="margin:0;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:center">The ENCODE Outreach Working Group</p>
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