Robert Gentleman and his team will be offering an Introductory Bioconductor course in Seattle, WA USA 27-29 April 2009. This course will be targeted to new users who want to learn more about Bioconductor tools for analyzing microarray experiments. During lectures and hands- on labs, attendees will be presented material on: 1. The basics of R and Bioconductor 2. Analyzing microarray data * Preprocessing and quality assess Affymetrix and cDNA microarrays * Assessing differential gene expression 3. Obtaining annotation metadata 4. Visualizing experiment data and associated metadata 5. Performing Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) 6. Using machine learning techniques 7. Exploring biological graphs and networks For details and registration, visit https://secure.bioconductor.org/SeattleApr09/. Space is limited. Patrick