A while back I went to one of these specifically for writing an F31 NRSA fellowship application. Ended up getting one the first try. I thought the workshop was helpful. This looks a little more general, but may give you some ideas about getting external funding that isn't necessarily from NIH. Grant &

Thomas Lasko, MD, PhD, from Google Inc., Mountain View CA, will be giving a seminar next week entitled: "Spectral Anonymization Data" March 3, 2010 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. 214 Light Hall Abstract: The great challenge of data anonymization is to condition a dataset for public release such that it remains scientifically useful, but it does not disclose sensitive information about the individuals it describes.

The Pharmacology department's student invited seminar is coming up next week. Last time the students invited an excellent speaker from Washington to talk about AAAS fellowships. This year's student invited speaker is James S. Bernstein, Director, Government and Public Affairs for the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.

The first post on Getting Genetics Done was one year ago today. To celebrate, here are the top 10 most viewed posts since GGD launched last year. Incidentally, nine of the ten are tutorials on how to do something in R. Thanks to all the readers and all the commenters for sharing your thoughts!

Doug Robinson (JMP Academic Division, SAS Institute) is giving a presentation of the JMP Genomics software from SAS illustrating data analysis for genetics, expression, and copy number variation studies. Agenda includes: CNV analysis, merging CNV data sets of continuous traits, and QC, analysis, and downstream applications of expression studies.

If you read the previously mentioned "synthetic associations" paper in PLoS Bio by Dickson et al. in David Goldstein's group, be sure to read this brief commentary written by Pat Sullivan at UNC offering a different point of view.

A tip of the hat to @JVJAI for pointing out this interesting looking paper in AJHG. ROADTRIPS: Case-Control Association Testing with Partially or Completely Unknown Population and Pedigree Structure Timothy Thornton and Mary Sara McPeek Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington. Abstract: Genome-wide association studies are routinely conducted to identify genetic variants that influence complex disorders.

In my previous post about Q10 a commenter suggested a software called "The Journal" by davidRM for productively keeping track of experiments, datasets, projects, etc. I've never tried this software before, but about a year ago I ditched my pen and paper lab notebook for an electronic lab notebook in the form of a blog using Blogger, the same platform I use to write Getting Genetics Done.

Department of Biostatistics Seminar/Workshop Series: Statistical Methods for DNA Resequencing Analysis in Disease-Gene Studies Wenyi Wang, Ph.D., Faculty Candidate Stanford Genome Technology Center, UC Berkeley Statistics 2:00-3:00pm Monday, February 15, 2010 MRB III Room 1220 Intended Audience: Persons interested in applied statistics, statistical theory, epidemiology, health services research, clinical trials methodology, statistical

This is the first in a series of posts on how to use MySQL with genetic data analysis. MySQL is a very popular, freely available database management system that is easily installed on desktop computers (or Linux servers). The "SQL" in MySQL stands for Structured Query Language, which is by my humble estimation the most standardized way to store and access information in the known universe.

Update Friday, May 14, 2010: See this newer post on LocusZoom. If you caught Cristen Willer's seminar here a few weeks ago you saw several beautiful figures in the style of a manhattan plot, but zoomed in around a region of interest, with several other useful information overlays.