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Statistical tests and statistical learning for omics data

29 - 30 November 2022 two days, On-site Registration currently closed.

This advanced statistics course will include feature selection in statistical tests, clustering and statistical learning methods.

Successful completion will be awarded with 1 ECTS.

Obtaining an overview of current computational systems biology approaches for omics data analysis
Understanding the principles behind data pre-processing, quality control and statistical analysis of large-scale biological datasets
Obtaining experience in higher-level omics analysis via pathway and network analyses
Learning the basics of machine learning analyses for omics sample clustering and classification

Basic working knowledge of R
Have a computer ready with a recent version of R (4.0 or later) and RStudio (1.2 or later) installed. Please have your computer set-up well before the start of the course.

Time	Topic
9.15	Coffee & virtual get together
9.45	Lecture
	Welcome & introduction
	Data pre-processing, filtering & quality control
	Feature selection and hypothesis tests
	Statistical meta-analysis of omics data
12.30	Lunch break
13.30	Practical tutorial
	Introduction to the example datasets used for the project
	Software installations on student laptops, retrieving public biomedical datasets
	Hands-on data pre-processing & differential abundance analysis
17.00	End

Time	Topic
9.15	Coffee & virtual get together
9.45	Lecture
	Cellular pathway & network analysis
	Unsupervised machine learning analysis (clustering)
	Supervised machine learning analysis (prediction)
12.30	Lunch break
13.30	Practical tutorial
	Hands-on pathway & network analysis
	Hands-on machine learning analyses
	Conclusion & final discussion
17.00	End

Enrico Glaab with Armin Rauschenberger and Veronica Codoni

Registration is closed.

The workshop will be held at Roudeneck building (BTL) on 4th floor, meeting room E04.020.

University of Luxembourg, Belval campus

1, Boulevard du Jazz

Esch-sur-Alzette