We are introducing a tutorial session this year. Keeping the increasing need of statistical analysis and data mining in bioinformatics in mind, we have selected R/Bioconductor as the subject.

Genetics of complex phenotypes with R/Bioconductor: Mapping phenotype space with RNAi screen and cellular imaging experiments

Wolfgang Huber, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom

Wolfgang Huber obtained his PhD in statistical quantum physics at the University of Freiburg in Germany in 1998. He then worked as a postdoc in cheminformatics at IBM Research in San Jose in California from 1998 to 1999. He did his second postdoc in microarray data analysis at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg in Germany from 2000 to 2004. Since 2004 he has been a Research Group Leader in Functional Genomics at EMBL in Cambridge (UK) and Heidelberg. Wolfgang is one of the core members of the Bioconductor project, an open source, open contribution software project for genomic data analysis and modelling. He is in particular interested in creating technologies and models for understanding how variations in genotypes create variations in complex (i.e. multi-locus) phenotypes.