Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops

• Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops: 2013 Series Toronto, Ontario Thursday, May 23, 2013 - Friday, July 05, 2013 The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) co-sponsors Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops (CBW), which aim to train researchers on new technologies and the latest approaches being used in computational biology.

• Exploratory Analysis of Biological Data using R (2013) Toronto, Ontario Thursday, May 23, 2013 - Friday, May 24, 2013 This workshop introduces the essential tools and strategies that are available through the free statistical workbench R.

• Bioinformatics for Cancer Genomics (BiCG) (2013) Toronto, Ontario Monday, May 27, 2013 - Friday, May 31, 2013 The CBW has developed a 5-day workshop covering the key bioinformatics concepts and tools required to analyze cancer genomic data sets.

• Ontario Centres of Excellence Discovery Conference Toronto, Ontario Monday, May 27, 2013 - Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Canada's leading innovation-to-commercialization conference, showcasing leading-edge technologies, best practices and research in Ontario.

• 24th Annual Canadian Bioethics Society Conference Banff, Alberta Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - Saturday, June 01, 2013 The conference is designed to provide intellectual stimulation, opportunities for networking, sharing of learning, and building of community for all individuals, whatever their background, who have an interest in ethical issues relating to health, the environment and the life sciences. All those interested in contributing to the bioethics conversation - from beginners to experts alike - are encouraged to attend for inspiration, renewal and discovery in one of Canada’s most breath-taking natural settings!

• Informatics for RNA-sequence Analysis (2013) Toronto, Ontario Monday, June 03, 2013 - Tuesday, June 04, 2013 The CBW has developed a 2-day course providing an introduction to RNA-seq data analysis followed by integrated tutorials demonstrating the use of popular RNA-seq analysis packages.

• Being an Editor and the Editorial Process Toronto, Ontario Wednesday, June 05, 2013 The Research Institute at the Hospital for Sick Children cordially invites you to attend Being an Editor and the Editorial Process presented by Karen Carniol, Ph.D., Deputy Editor, Cell.

• Informatics on High Throughput Sequencing Data (2013) Toronto, Ontario Thursday, June 06, 2013 - Friday, June 07, 2013 The CBW has developed a 2-day course covering the bioinformatics tools available for managing and interpreting high-throughput sequencing data.

• Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops 2013: Pathway and Network Analysis of -omics Data Toronto, ON. Monday, June 10, 2013 - Wednesday, June 12, 2013 The workshop is focused on the principles and concepts required for analyzing and conducting pathway analysis on a gene list from any organism, although focus will be on human and model Eukaryotic organisms.

• Canada NGS Symposium: Improving Genomics through Collaboration and Innovation Toronto, ON. Friday, June 14, 2013 - Friday, June 14, 2013 D-MARK Biosciences, Integrated DNA Technologies, and The Mount Sinai Clinical Genomics Centre, are proud to bring you an all-day Next Generation Sequencing Symposium

• World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology Montreal, Quebec Sunday, June 16, 2013 - Wednesday, June 19, 2013 The BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology is the world's largest industrial biotechnology event for business leaders, investors, and policy makers in biofuels, biobased products, and renewable chemicals.

• Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops 2013: Flow Cytometry Data Analysis using R Toronto, ON. Monday, June 17, 2013 - Tuesday, June 18, 2013 This workshop aims to provide participants some familiarity with the open source software environment R as an analysis tool for FCM data as they explore the fundamental concepts of taking their data to diagnosis and discovery.

• Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops 2013: Microarray Data Analysis Toronto, ON. Monday, June 24, 2013 - Tuesday, June 25, 2013 The goal of this workshop is to provide procedures and analysis workflows for the analysis of microarray datasets.

• Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops 2013: Informatics and Statistics for Metabolomics Toronto, ON. Monday, July 08, 2013 - Tuesday, July 09, 2013 The workshop will cover many topics ranging from understanding metabolomics technologies, data collection and analysis, using pathway databases, performing pathway analysis, conducting univariate and multivariate statistics, working with metabolomic databases and exploring chemical databases.

• 9th Annual Canadian Plant Genomics Workshop Halifax, Nova Scotia Monday, August 12, 2013 - Friday, March 15, 2013 Join high profile speakers and colleagues to exchange knowledge, build collaborations and plan for future research during this 3 ½ day conference featuring over 45 sessions, keynote addresses, abstract presentations and social networking.

• Sherbrooke International Life Sciences Summit Sherbrooke, Quebec Thursday, September 26, 2013 - Friday, September 27, 2013 Sherbrooke International Life Sciences Summit, is a not-to-be-missed event to get an overview of the life sciences industry and identify development perspectives.

• BioContact Quebec 2013 Quebec City, Quebec Wednesday, October 02, 2013 - Thursday, October 03, 2013 BioContactQuébec 2013 is a biopharmaceutical partnership symposium gathering over 300 participants.

• Bio-Europe 2013 Vienna, Austria Monday, November 04, 2013 - Wednesday, November 06, 2013 BIO-Europe® is Europe's largest partnering conference, serving the global biotechnology industry.

• Canadian Science Policy Conference Toronto, Ontario Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - Friday, November 22, 2013 Incubating innovation and ingenuity