Workshop: Genomic and Computational Approaches for Biomarker and Drug Discovery

Date: Friday, June, 19, 2015

Location: San Antonio, TX
Grand Hyatt, San Antonio
Room: Travis C/D

Time: 2-5pm

Note: space is limited to 50 participants; please RSVP by May 1, 2015 to M. Reilly at reillymt@mail.nih.gov.

Purpose:  to bring together (Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures) LINCS¹ scientists and scientists from the alcohol research community to explore how LINCS resources can facilitate identification of druggable targets and novel and/or repurposed compounds for the treatment of alcohol dependence

AGENDA

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Matthew Reilly², PhD and Ajay Pillai, PhD NIH

Hands-on Session:  Web Apps and Tools (Please bring your laptop computer and gene expression or other genomic data to analyze)

Session Leaders: Avi Ma’ayan, PhD and Aravind Subramanian, PhD
Mt Sinai School of Medicine & Broad Institute

• This session will consist of a hands on demonstration of currently available web apps and tools from the LINCS Common Fund program.   Participants will learn how to apply these tools to their own research programs. 

Additional Information

• Please register and create a lincscloud.org account before the workshop
   
• Your genomics datasets you bring to analyze should be formatted either as (1) official gene symbols or (2) Affymetrix U133A probe IDs.  Some of the web tools require a list of both up-regulated and down-regulated gene lists and some of the tools only accept gene symbols.
   
• Because the majority of the LINCS datasets use human cell lines, gene sets should be annotated for mammalian species.
   
• When you RSVP for the workshop, please indicate your area of expertise: genomics, computational or other
   
• Also, if you already have experience with working with any of the LINCS tools, you are welcome to submit questions/concerns, suggestions or other feedback in advance of the workshop.  You can submit your questions etc., to the workshop organizer: Matthew Reilly at reillymt@mail.nih.gov.
   

View the Abstract.

NOTES

¹More information about the NIH Common Fund LINCS program can be found here: http://www.lincsproject.org/

²Program contact:  M.Reilly, NIAAA/NIH, ph: 301-594-6228, email: reillymt@mail.nih.gov