Bioinformatics: tools in research WOUD, a research group of the Ghent University Association organises a mini-symposium: Bioinformatics: tools in research. During this meeting, researchers not trained in bioinformatics should get an idea how bioinformatics can be a tool for their research. More details and registration on http://mellfire.ugent.be/public/woud The program is included below. September 28th 2011, Congress Center Het Pand, Gent, Belgium Program 13:30 Welcome reception 14:00 Introduction: WOUD and bioinformatics (prof. dr. Bruno Verhasselt, prof. dr. Jo Vandesompele) 14:05 Investigating the human gut flora using metagenomics (prof. dr. Jeroen Raes, VUB) 14:25 The post-genomic era: epigenetic sequencing applications and data integration (dr. ir. Maté Ongenaert, CMGG - UGent) 14:45 Visualisation of large datasets (drs. Geert Trooskens, BIOBIX - UGent) 15:00 Race against the sequencing machine: processing of raw DNA sequence data at the Genomics Core (dr. Luc Dehaspe, Genomics Core - UZLeuven) 15:20 Coffee break 15:45 Integrative transcriptomics to study non-coding RNA functions (dr. ir. Pieter Mestdagh, CMGG - UGent) 16:05 Large scale machine learning challenges for systems biology (dr. Yvan Saeys, VIB - UGent) 16:25 Pathway analysis: example from the bench (drs. Jolien Vermeire, HIVlab, Department of Clinical Chemistry, Microbiology and Immunology - UGent) 16:40 Proteomics and cross-omics integration (prof. dr. Lennart Maertens (VIB - UGent) 17:00 Closure