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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 128, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-large; ">THIS SATURDAY 4/27 2-5 PM: Mathworks/BUSA MATLAB Biostatistics Workshop!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 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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<b><font size="3">Lunch Sandwiches will be provided. Open to all Undergrads and Grad students!</font></b></div>
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<font size="3"><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">What:</b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "> 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. Topics include:</span></font></div>
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<font size="3">· Data access and manipulation</font></div>
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<font size="3">· Interactive tools for data visualization</font></div>
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<font size="3">· Creating scripts and functions to automate tasks</font></div>
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<span><font size="3">· One-click report generation to share your results</font></span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: medium; ">The event will culminate in a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-size: medium; ">µHackathon challenge, with prizes from Mathworks!</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 255); ">More details on event content further below.</span></div>
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<b><font color="#0000ff" size="3">When: Saturday, April 27th. 2 PM - 5 PM</font></b></div>
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(Stata building, </b></font><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32" target="_blank">http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=32</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><font color="#0000ff"><b>first floor, room 124)</b></font></font></div>
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<div><b><font size="3">**RSVP HERE**:</font></b></div>
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<div><b><u><font size="2">Please, only RSVP if you can commit to attending.</font></u></b></div>
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<div><font><b><font size="2">Note:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size="3">Participants will need to bring their own laptops</font><font size="2"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with Matlab 8.1 and the Statistics, Bioinformatics,
and Curve-Fitting Toolboxes </font></b></font><b style="font-size: small; ">installed</b><b style="font-size: small; "> (Free for MIT students via MIT license). The toolboxes can be selected as add-ons during installation.</b></div>
<div><font size="2"><font><b>Tutorial for MIT Students: </b></font><a href="http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7144438" target="_blank">http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=7144438</a></font></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">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">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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