GGD is now on Twitter! I'll be linking to all of our posts on the Twitter page, and occasionally post something there that may not make its way into a full length post here on the blog. You can follow us on Twitter here @genetics_blog.Getting Genetics Done by Stephen Turner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License.
The 2009 Cancer Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Bioinformatics Retreat will be held on Friday, December 4th, 2009, from 1:30 pm to 5:00 pm, on the eighth floor of the VICC building (898B PRB). The purpose of the retreat is to promote interactions among biostatisticians, bioinformaticians, epidemiologists, clinical investigators, and other translational researchers.
Theresa Scott, instructor of the previously mentioned R workshop and weekly R clinic, is giving a lecture entitled "Reproducible Research with R, LaTeX, & Sweave" in MRB III, room 1220, this Wednesday 11/18 at 1:30. You can see more details about the lecture here. Looks like her slides as well as much more introductory material on R, Latex, and Sweave are on her website. Reproducible Research with R, LaTeX, &
Aloha! If you're going to the American Society of Human Genetics meeting next week, come by our poster (poster #116, abstract #1567/T) and say hello! We would love to meet any of you who read GGD and hear what you think and what you'd like to see in the future.Getting Genetics Done by Stephen Turner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License.
A quick announcement about a formatting fix here - you can now print posts from GGD a little more cleanly. When you print it should no longer include the title and sidebar, so most posts should now only use a page or two.Getting Genetics Done by Stephen Turner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License.
Hadley Wickham, creator of the previously mentioned R plotting system ggplot2 and author of a forthcoming book from Springer, is teaching a workshop in data visualization using R, ggplot2, and GGobi. Unfortunately this workshop conflicts with IGES and ASHG this year, but he mentioned the possibility of holding a workshop here at Vanderbilt if there is enough interest.
For readers at Vanderbilt: At yesterday's R course I found out that Theresa Scott in the Biostatistics department holds a weekly R clinic and encourages new R users who want to learn more to bring any questions about R, or even your own code and data. The R clinic is held weekly on Thursday from 2:00-3:00 in MCN.
The Program in Computational Genomics holds a journal club twice a month. Our technical writer Julia Wall will soon start posting here references to the articles we talked about. Keep an eye out here to see some of the latest research we're discussing!Getting Genetics Done by Stephen Turner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License.
In case you missed the email, Lana Olson here in the CHGR is holding a workshop next Thursday, June 4 at 1:30pm on using Haploview, WASP, PLINK, and STRUCTURE. The workshop will be held in the CHGR conference room, 519 Light Hall.Getting Genetics Done by Stephen Turner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) License.
The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center is offering a free (repeat, free) one-day introductory course to the R statistical computing language on June 23, taught by Theresa Scott from the department of Biostatistics. You can find contact/registration info at the link below.Vanderbilt Kennedy Center - An Introduction to the Fundamentals &