if you are interested in affy array probe-level data analysis you might find this workshop interesting (see below) -rafael ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 15:02:37 -0700 From: genechip workshop <genechip_workshop@affymetrix.com> To: "Hubbell, Earl" <earl_hubbell@affymetrix.com>, "'Terry Speed (E-mail)'" <terry@stat.berkeley.edu>, 'Felix Naef' <felix@funes.rockefeller.edu>, 'Cheng Li' <cli@hsph.harvard.edu>, "'Rafael A. Irizarry (E-mail)'" <ririzarr@jhsph.edu>, "'Victor Markowitz (E-mail)'" <vmarkowitz@genelogic.com> Subject: Call for Papers: 2003 Affymetrix GeneChip Microarray Low- level An alysis Workshop 2003 Affymetrix GeneChip Microarray Low-level Analysis Workshop The Alumni House, UC Berkeley Campus Berkeley, California USA - August 7-8, 2003 http://eci-events.com/AffyGeneChip/ Affymetrix GeneChip microarrays have become a crucial component of gene expression and genotype research for many laboratories. Data analysis remains a major challenge for the effective use of GeneChip data. While many software tools and services exist to simplify data access, management, and analysis of microarray data, the availability of large numbers of microarray experiments and of reference data sets has motivated considerable interest in the research community to improve upon existing analysis methods. Affymetrix would like to invite researchers currently engaged in algorithm development to a poster session in the evening of August 7 and a one day workshop on August 8th, 2003 in Berkeley, California to discuss low- level issues related to GeneChip microarray data analysis including image analysis, DNA probe hybridization, normalization and summarization. We are soliciting proposals for talks and invite all non-speaking attendees to present posters. The goal of this meeting is to provide a forum for the open sharing of ideas and promote further research in GeneChip microarray analysis. Limited travel support is available. Please email ASCII text abstracts to: genechip_workshop@affymetrix.com Deadline for submission of talks is: June 15, 2003 Notification of acceptance is: July 4, 2003 Organizing Committee: Earl Hubbell, Affymetrix Rafael Irizarry, Johns Hopkins University David Kulp, Affymetrix Cheng Li, Harvard School of Public Health Victor Markowitz, Gene Logic Felix Naef, Rockefeller University Terry Speed, UCB To register, please go to: http://eci-events.com/AffyGeneChip/ Note: this workshop is scheduled to follow the Joint Statistical Meeting in San Francisco, August 3-7. Please forward this notice to colleagues who might be interested in this event. Thank you.