September, 28th 08:00-09:30 Registration 09:30-09:45 Welcome address to the course Dr. Enrique Zamorano-Ponce GENETOX – UBB - Chile Chair 09:45- 10:30 “Bioinformatics: Tools and methods for functional genomics”
Dr. Mario A. Bueno
10:30-11:30 “Genomics and transcriptomics: microarray data analysis” The possibilities and limitations of the micro array technology. Data preprocessing and normalization. Unsupervised & Supervised analysis. Functional annotation. Dr. Mario A. Bueno
11:30 -12:00 Break 12:00–13:00 From SNPs to Functional polymorphism: Overview of techniques to SNP discovery and detection.Phenotypes linked to SNPs variations and its applications to the biotechnology industry, challenges and the future.
Dr. Cristian Gallardo
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 -18:00 (Practical session) Hands on microarray’s data analysis. Web and programming techniques.
Dr. Mario A. Bueno
September 29th
9:00 -10:00 High-throughput technologies in human population studies: Overview, techniques, and perspectives.
Dr. Stefano Bonassi
10:00 -11:00 Proteomics: a complementary approach to functional genomics. Overview of experimental and bioinformatics methodologies. Example: Discovery of biomarkers through nutritional proteomics
Dr. Andrea Mahn 11:00 -11:30 Break 11:30-13:00 An overview of different clustering methods: hierarchical clustering, SOM, SOTA and k-means. Gene clustering, gene neighbors, phylogenetic tree construction. Dr. Mario A. Bueno 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14:30–17:30 Practical Session Hands-on in clustering methods and phylogenetic tree construction. Web and programming techniques.
Dr. Mario A. Bueno
17:30-18:00 Concluding Remarks |