Putting the R in Bioinformatics with Bioconductor

Summary:
Bioinformatics analysis and software underpins each and every new discovery made using genomics data in medical research. This talk will give an overview of recent advances in gene expression technology and showcase our work in developing new statistical methods and open-source software for use in expression analysis available through the Bioconductor project (www.bioconductor.org). Improved methods for prioritising genes and pathways and new plotting capabilities that allow more intuitive exploration of both raw and summarised data will be presented.

Bio:
Dr Matt Ritchie is an NHMRC Career Development Fellow and Laboratory Head in the Epigenetics and Development Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne. He is an experienced computational researcher, with skills in analysing high-throughput sequencing data and developing open-source software for Bioinformatics analysis. He has been an avid R user since 2001.

A big thank you to Servian for hosting us for this event and providing catering. Please note their new address.

Rough agenda:
5:45 Networking, food & drinks
6:15 Main talk
7:15 More networking
8:00 Close