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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-large; ">Mathworks/BUSA MATLAB Biostatistics Workshop!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">
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<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>**RSVP HERE**:</b></div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wwYd_xs3FuAUSvHNKe4PkMJLNt8ylmgNWlETIKCE6xU/viewform" target="_blank" style="font-size: 10pt; ">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wwYd_xs3FuAUSvHNKe4PkMJLNt8ylmgNWlETIKCE6xU/viewform</a></div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Attendance is currently limited to 40 participants;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>if you RSVP, you commit to attending</u>.</b></div>
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<div><font><b>Note: It may be necessary that you bring your own laptop. If so, or if you prefer to use your own, you will need to have Matlab 8.1 installed, along with the Statistics, Bioinformatics, and Curve-Fitting Toolboxes. These can be selected as add-ons
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<div><font><b>Tutorial for MIT Students: </b></font><a href="http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7144438" target="_blank" style="font-size: 10pt; ">http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7144438</a></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; "><b>What:</b> BUSA is collaborating with MathWorks to put on a unique MATLAB/Biostatistics workshop! This is a great opportunity to learn how to use MATLAB's
Statistics Toolbox and Bioinformatics Toolbox to analyze data. The event will culminate in a µHackathon challenge, with prizes from Mathworks! More details below.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">
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<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b><font color="#0000ff">When: Saturday, April 27th. 2 PM - 5 PM</font></b></div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font color="#0000ff"><b>Where:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Specific Room to be determined.</font></div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Event Overview:</b></div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">MATLAB for Biologists: Introduction to Data Analysis and Visualization</div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">MATLAB provides a flexible data analysis and visualization environment for a wide range of applications, including statistics, image processing, bioinformatics and systems biology. In this hands-on workshop,
we will provide an introduction to the MATLAB platform for data analysis and visualization.</div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Topics include:</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">· Data access and manipulation</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">· Interactive tools for data visualization</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">· Creating scripts and functions to automate tasks</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">· One-click report generation to share your results</div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">µHackathon:</div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">The workshop will conclude with a short µHackathon challenge. The challenge will involve comparing the gene expression profiles from different cancer types using a few different statistical techniques.
The objective of the challenge will be to identify the subset of the genes that are differentially expressed across the tumor types. The challenge will explore concepts of data filtering, visualization, hypothesis tests and false discovery rates.</div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Fun and geeky MATLAB goodies for the first 3 attendees that successfully complete the challenge!</div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">MathWorks' site: <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 10pt; ">http://www.mathworks.com/</a> </div>
<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">BUSA's site: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/busa/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 10pt; ">http://web.mit.edu/busa/</a> </div>
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<div style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b><font color="#0000ff">Hope to see you there!</font></b></div>
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