 Methodological
Training in Statistical Data Mining,
May 19-21 or September 15-17, 2008, Baden, Switzerland
Utilisation des plans d'expériences,
10-12 Septembre 2008, Yverdon-les-Bains, Suisse
Methodological
Training in Statistical Data Mining Related to Drug Development,
October 13-15, 2008, Basel, Switzerland
Séminaire de
méthodologie en data mining statistique, 5-6 Novembre 2008, Paris, France
Einführung
in Methoden für statistisches
Data Mining, 25.-26. November, 2008, Hamburg, Deutschland
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Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is the science of storing, extracting, organising,
analysing, interpreting and utilising information from biological sequences
and molecules.
For example, the past few years have witnessed an extraordinary surge of
interest in sequence and transcriptome analysis; technologies which offer the first
great hope for providing a systematic way to explore the information
contained in the genome. They permit very rapid and simultaneous analysis
of thousands of genes for the purposes of gene discovery, sequencing,
mapping and expression, and polymorphism detection.
Bioinformatics merges such new techniques with computer science technology
and advanced statistical methods to organise, analyse and interpret data.
For example, the thousands of spots on the gene chips are changed with the
help of computer science into numbers, which can then be processed, saved
and analysed by means of statistical analysis and pattern discovery
methods.
What characterises the state of bioinformatics is the flood of data that
exists today or that is anticipated in the future; data that need to be
mined to get reliable information.
Statistics is very important for bioinformatics. It is very easy to
have a computer analyse the data and give you back a result.
The problem is to decide whether the answer the computer gives
you is any good at all.
- How statistically significant is the answer?
- What is the probability that this answer could have been obtained by random chance?
- Is a certain pattern of amino acids or nucleotides important information
that tells you something about a sequence, or is it nothing more than a fluctuation in the random
background noise?
These are the underlying questions you need to ask whenever you do a database search or other
type of bioinformatics analysis. This is exactly where we at Statoo
Consulting can help you. Get Statooed.
Statoo Consulting can also design individualised training on your
statistical bioinformatics topics of interest. For example,
we already gave successfully several introductory and advanced
courses in the usage of Bioconductor for different educational and industrial
clients.
Want to know more about the relation between bioinformatics, data mining
and statistics? Check out our paper
entitled `Challenges in
Bioinformatics for Statistical Data Miners' or additional papers in our `Publications' section.
Interested in our bioinformatics services? Are you drowning in uncertainty and starving for
knowledge? Interested to get Statooed?
Have a question about our bioinformatics services? Contact us to allow us
to help you.
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