Whole Transcriptome Data Analysis

This is an introductory course with biologists as intended audience in mind. However basic knowledge of microarray technology and massively parallel sequencing (MPS) are desirable. The course participants will use open source Affymetrix and BioConductor software solutions; On the other side, R-coding skills and deep knowledge of statistics are not necessary for attendance because most analyses will be performed with OneChannelGUI (a graphical interface to a series of BioConductor tools prepared by Prof. R. Calogero, which enables handling microarray data analysis as well as secondary quantitative analysis of miRNA without requiring programming skills). Computers for hands-on exercises will be provided along with demo data sets, however, participants are welcome to bring along their own data to analyse.