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BioSys Course - DNA Microarray Analysis

Course Program - May 2007

The course will be held from May 7 - 23, 2007 (both days included)

Lectures and exercises will take place at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis at the Technical University of Denmark, building 208, auditorium 62, in Lyngby.


O Monday, May 7

Introduction - Microarray Technology and R Software

9.00-9.30
Introduction to course + pre-test
Hanne Jarmer
9.30-10.00
Break
10.00-10.45
Overview of the microarray technology (Lecture slides)
Hanne Jarmer
10.45-11.15
Who are we? - each participant presents briefly
11.15-12.00
Scanning and Image Analysis (Lecture slides)
Hanne Jarmer
12.00-13.00
Lunch Break
13.00-13.30
Introduction to R (Lecture slides) (An Introduction to R)
Carsten Friis
13.30-15.45
Exercise: Basic R Commands (Extra exercise) (Solution, Extra solution)
Carsten Friis & Hanne Jarmer
15.45-16.00
Test of the day
Carsten Friis


O Wednesday, May 9

Preprocessing and Introduction to BioConductor

9.00-9:30
Working with R (Lecture slides)
Carsten Friis
9:30-10.45
Exercise: Working with R (Solution)
Carsten Friis & Hanne Jarmer
10.45-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Normalization and Expression Index Calculation (Lecture slides)
H. Bjørn Nielsen
12.00-13.00
Lunch Break
13.00-14.00
Discussion on microarray data preprocessing (Questions) (Solutions)
H. Bjørn Nielsen & Chris Workman
14.00-14.45
Case story: Application of in vitro gene expression signatures for in vivo cancer response prediction
Dr. Balazs Gyorffy
14.45-15.00
Break
15:00-15.45
Exercise: Applied exercise in preprocessing using BioConductor part I -> homework (Solution)
Carsten Friis & Hanne Jarmer
15.45-16.00
Test of the day
Hanne Jarmer


O Monday, May 14

Statistical analysis - Experimental Design

9.00-9.15
Applied exercise in preprocessing using BioConductor part II
Carsten Friis
9.15-10:00
Statistical analysis (Lecture slides)
H. Bjørn Nielsen
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:15
Discussion - Statistics (Questions) (Solutions)
H. Bjørn Nielsen
11:15-12:00
Experimental Design (Lecture slides)
Hanne Jarmer
12.00-13.00
Lunch Break
13.00-15.00
Introduction to Exercise
Exercise: Statistical Analysis
Hanne Jarmer & Carsten Friis
15.00-15.15
Break
15:15-15.45
Case story: Regulatory T cells and Allergy
Hanne Jarmer
15.45-16.00
Test of the day
Hanne Jarmer


O Wednesday, May 16

Probe Design - Array CGH

9:00-9:15
Homework
Hanne Jarmer
9:15-12:00
Probe design using OligoWiz 2.0 (Lecture Slides, Exercise guide, OligoWiz 2.0 server)
H. Bjørn Nielsen
12.00-13.00
Lunch Break
13.00-15.45
Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization (aCGH) (Lecture slides, Exercise)
Hanni Willenbrock
15.45-16.00
Test of the day
Hanni Willenbrock


O Monday, May 21

Dimension Reduction and Data Visualization

9.00-10:00
Dimension Reduction: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Clustering (Lecture slides)
Chris Workman
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-12:00
Discussion: Dimension Reduction (Questions) (Solutions)
Chris Workman
12.00-13.00
Lunch Break
13.00-14.00
Exercise: Dimension Reduction
Hanni Willenbrock
14.00-14:15
Break
14:15-14.30
Gene Onthology (GO) and KEGG (Lecture slides)
H. Bjørn Nielsen
14:30-15:30
Exercise: GO analysis (Code). Now for Windows too.
H. Bjørn Nielsen and Hanne Jarmer
15.30-15.45
Test of the day
H. Bjørn Nielsen


O Wednesday, May 23

Integrative Biology

9.00-9:15
Small test - Did you get it?
Hanne Jarmer
9.15-10:15
Integrative Biology (Lecture slides)
Chris Workman
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30-11:15
Biological Networks (Lecture slides)
Chris Workman
11:15-12:00
Discussion: Integrative Biology (Questions) (Solutions)
Chris Workman
12.00-13.00
Lunch Break
13.00-13.45
Introduction to CytoScape (Lecture slides)
Carsten Friis
13.45-15.30
Exercise: Integrative Biology (Files)
Chris Workman
15:30-15.45
Test of the day
Chris Workman
15.45-16:00
Summary of the course - closing remarks
Hanne Jarmer



Made by Hanne Jarmer, CBS, May, 2007