Workshops

On Sunday, September 7, 2008 the following three workshops will be held at the University of Algarve.
Cost per person: 50 EUR per workshop including coffee/tea and soft drinks during the coffee break.
Registration is necessary, please fill in the registration form.

Location:
Faculdade de Engenharia de Recursos Naturais
Campus de Gambelas
Portaria Nascente
8000-117 Faro/P

Sunday, September 7, 2008
Room: Auditorium (anfiteatro) 1.8.1, building 8/9
14:00 – 17:00 Workshop 1: Analysis of Genomic Data with R and Bioconductor
Careful statistical design and analysis are essential to improve the efficiency and reliability of genomic data, from the early design and pre-processing stages to higher-level analysis. Powerful statistical and graphical methods are essential for the analysis of gene expression data. This tutorial will give an introduction to the capabilities provided by the open source statistical computing environment R ( www.r-project.org ) and Bioconductor ( www.bioconductor.org ), the open source software project for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data. The tutorial will include design issues, quality control and pre-processing of microarray data as well as identification of differentially expressed genes, gene set enrichment analysis and cluster analysis.
Th. Scharl, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna/A

Room: to be announced
14:00 – 17:00 Workshop 2: Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins
The attendees will learn how to set up, run and analyse molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecular systems. The PyMOL software will be used for molecular visualisation, and the GROMACS package for MD simulation and analysis. Topics will include topology building, cleaning of structures for simulation, setup of the simulation box, choice of parameters, system equilibration and analysis of the simulated data, both visually and numerically. All model systems used in the workshop will be biological relevant.
P. Martel, University of Algarve, Faro/P

Room: Auditorium (anfiteatro) 1.22, building 8/9
14:00 – 17:00 Workshop 3: Quality by Design
The concept of Quality by Design refers to features and decisions that deliver a high degree of confidence that manufactured product lots will have the intended quality and performance. This includes, for example, design to specification goals and ability to describe and justify why proposed design features deliver the intended quality. The workshop will focus on biotechnology-related drug products and their particular characteristics.
C.-F. Mandenius, University of Linköping/S