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From plant molecular biology to human health, more and more data is being generated through large-scale genomic studies.

A recent workshop at UWA familiarised researchers with the latest methods available for analysing big volumes of data.

Dr Cedric Gondro, a statistical geneticist from the University of New England, ran a three-day training course which introduced participants to the statistical programming language and environment “R” for genomic analysis.

Honours, PhD students and academic staff from UWA – as well as staff from iVEC and researchers from Murdoch University, the CSIRO and the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research – attended lectures and practicals on the basics of programming in “R”, analysis of genome-wide association and microarray data, and how to explore and make use of biological information from public databases.

The course was organised by Assistant Professor Kate Howell from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology and the School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology’s Associate Professor Silvana Gaudieri and Professor Miranda Grounds .

Professor Grounds is collaborating with Dr Gondro on microarray data analysis.

Dr Gondro will return to WA for a second workshop related to next generation sequencing early next year. For more information, please contact Kate Howell or Silvana Gaudieri .

Published in UWA News , 15 October 2012