The Bioconductor group in Seattle will offer 'Advanced R / Bioconductor Programming' on October 15-16 in Seattle. See https://secure.bioconductor.org/Seattle-Oct-2012/ for more information and registration. Advanced R / Bioconductor Programming provides experienced R and Bioconductor users and package developers with an opportunity to develop advanced skills for creating performant, re-usable software. This course is relevant to R software development in general, but includes insights particularly relevant to development of bioinformatics software. The material is structured around R packages and their implementation, including programming best practices, formal classes and methods, accessing data resources, strategies for measuring performance and managing large data, interfacing C code, and parallel evaluation. The course concludes with an extended tour of key Bioconductor packages for representation and manipulation of genomic data. Participants engage in lectures and hands-on exercises. Participants require a laptop with internet access and a current browser. Best, Martin -- Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N. PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109 Location: Arnold Building M1 B861 Phone: (206) 667-2793