The 16th Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics will be held June 13-July 1, 2011, in Seattle, at the University of Washington.
The course offerings include a 2.5 day module in "Advanced R Programming", June 27-29 with Thomas Lumley and Ken Rice as instructors. This module covers use of R for advanced graphics, object-oriented programming, use of SQL databases and other formats used with large data files, some of the Bioconductor data infrastructure, production of R packages, and calling C code from R. The module is aimed at people who have either substantial R experience or programming experience in other languages. There is also a (very) introductory module on R for genetics, June 15-17, by the same instructors. Other modules cover statistics, classical and modern statistical genetics, gene expression, and proteomics. The web site is http://sisg.biostat.washington.edu Some scholarships (funded by NIH and NSF) are available for students. US students can receive support for travel and tuition fees; overseas students may be able to receive support for tuition fees, but not for travel. The deadline for scholarship applications is Friday, April 1. For non-scholarship participants the deadline for early registration is Monday, May 16. -thomas -- Thomas Lumley Professor of Biostatistics, University of Auckland Affiliate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Washington. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
