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Center hosts Bioconductor conference Aug. 16-17 in Arnold

The Hutchinson Center will host a conference to highlight current developments related to Bioconductor, a worldwide open-source and open-development software project for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data. The conference will take place Aug. 16-17 in the Arnold Building, M1-A303/305/307.

The meeting will provide a forum in which to discuss the use and design of software for analyzing biological data with a focus on Bioconductor and genomic data.

Speakers include:

• Dr. Michael Boutros, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
• Dr. Eric Schadt, Senior Scientific Director, Research Genetics, Rosetta Inpharmatics
• Srikhar Ramaswamy, Tucker Gosnell Investigator and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Dr. Wolfgang Huber, European Bioinformatics Institute
• Dr. Gordon Smyth, Senior Research Scientist, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
• Dr. John Storey, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
• Dr. Rafael Irizarry, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
• Dr. Robert Gentleman, Head, Program in Computational Biology, Public Health Sciences Division

The conference will also include hands-on session for use of software for analyzing different types of biological data and questions, including microarray preprocessing and quality control, differential gene expression, linear models, graphs and networks, flow cytometry, and machine learning.

Attendees should bring a wireless-equipped laptop computer for use in the labs. All software and lab materials will be available on-line. Attendees are invited to present a poster in the Tuesday evening poster session. Abstracts should be provided with registration application.

For more information and to register, visit the meeting Web site: http://bioconductor.org/meeting05/.

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