Meeting announcement and invitation for registration: ----------------------------------------------------- Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK High Dimensional Statistics in Biology (31 March to 4 April 2008) in association with the Newton Institute programme "Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data" (7 January to 27 June 2008) Workshop Organisers: Peter Bickel (UC Berkeley), Ewan Birney (EBI), Wolfgang Huber (EBI) and Richard Durbin (Sanger Institute) Theme of Workshop: The study of biological systems has been revolutionized by the advent of large scale systematic data gathering. An increasing number of complex datasets inform our biological understanding of both the normal workings of organisms in biology and processes which cause disease. The analysis of these datasets, which has become an increasingly important part of biology, poses a number of interesting statistical problems, largely driven by the complex inter-relationships between measurements. The size and complexity of these datasets make even adaptation of existing statistical techniques to biological problems novel. In some cases, the development of entirely new statistical methods is necessary. Methods developed and developing for high dimensional (large p) and possibly small sample size (small n) inference seem particularly germane. In this workshop we aim to provide a collegial, interdisciplinary group of statisticians and biologists to exchanges ideas and challenges at the Newton Institute in Cambridge UK. Drawing on both nearby expertise at the Hinxton Campus (the EBI and the Sanger Institute) and worldwide expertise in statistics the workshop will involve 45-50 minute overview talks from both biologists and statisticians and less structured, collaboration based time as well as a possible poster session. Confirmed Speakers: J Ahringer (Cambridge), N Beerenwinkel(ETH Zurich), P Bertone (EMBL-EBI), E Birney (EMBL-EBI), P Bickel (Berkeley), P Buehlmann (ETH Zurich), S Brunak (Denmark), ML Bulyk (Harvard), D.Clayton (MRC Cambridge), G Crawford (Duke), M Dermitzakis (Sanger, Cambridge), R Durbin (Sanger, Cambridge), A Enright (Sanger, Cambridge), A Fraser (Sanger, Cambridge), W Huber (EMBL-EBI), M Hurles (Sanger, Cambridge), N Luscombe (EBI, Cambridge), EM Marcotte (Texas at Austin), E Margulies (NHGRI), G McLachlan (Queensland), G McVean(Oxford), L Pachter (Berkeley), E Segal (Weizmann, Israel), M West (Duke) Further Information and Application Forms are available at: http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/SCH/schw02.html Closing Date for the receipt of applications is 30 November 2007