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 -- Pedro Fernandes GTPB Coordinator Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Apartado 14 2781-901 OEIRAS PORTUGAL Tel +351 21 4407912 http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt _______________________________________________ Gtpb mailing list Gtpb@igc.gulbenkian.pt https://lists.igc.gulbenkian.pt/mailman/listinfo/gtpb