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DESCRIPTION:Bioinformatics has become an important part of many areas of he
 alth research. Several fields of research such as microbiome\, cancer\, im
 munology and clinical research are generating massive amounts of data that
  need appropriate computational tools for their analysis and interpretatio
 n. Moreover\, a need for bioinformatics training is more pressing than eve
 r as big data are more and more present in health research.\n\nThe Canadia
 n Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)\, Université Laval Big Data Resear
 ch Centre\, the Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) Program\, and CBW
  are offering a 4-day workshop centered on the microbiome. This workshop w
 ill provide an introduction to the use of bioinformatics in microbiome res
 earch as well as big data analytics applied to this field.\n\nParticipants
  will gain practical experience and skills to be able to:\n\nDesign approp
 riate microbiome-focused experiments\nUnderstand the advantages and limita
 tions of metagenomic data analysis\nDevise an appropriate bioinformatics w
 orkflow for processing and analyzing metagenomic sequence data (marker-gen
 e\, shotgun metagenomic\, and metatranscriptomic data)\nApply appropriate 
 statistics to undertake rigorous data analysis\nVisualize datasets to gain
  intuitive insights into the composition and/or activity of their data set
 \nUse machine learning approaches to solve problems
LOCATION:Québec City
SUMMARY:Microbiome Summer School
URL;VALUE=URI:https://bioinformatics.ca/workshops/2017/microbiome-summer-sc
 hool-2017
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