The Advanced R programming for Bioinformatics summer school 2018 is organized by a group of bioinformatics data analysts and R enthusiasts working at the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure, Sweden – a platform of the Science for Life Laboratory. The event is organized in co-operation with the Uppsala University, Campus Gotland, and Stockholm University.

Guest speakers

	Martin Morgan — director at Bioconductor,
	Paula Moraga — spatial stats researcher, Lancaster University,
	Yihui Xie — software engineer at RStudio (online).

Organizing committee

	Marcin Kierczak — bioinformatics data analyst at the long-term support of the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure, Sweden with long experience in R programming and data analyses using statistical learning. In particular, he is working in the area of computational genetics.
	Sebastian DiLorenzo — bioinformatics data analyst at the short/medium-term support platform of the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure, Sweden with long experience in R programming and data analyses. In particular, he is working in the area of cancer genomics.
	Thomas Källman — bioinformatics data analyst at the Natural History Museum (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet) in Stockholm with long experience in R programming and data analyses using statistical learning. In particular, he is working in the area of RNAseq.
	Jessica Lindvall — manager of the short/medium-term support platform and teaching co-ordinator at the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure, Sweden.
	Björn Nystedt — manager of the long-term support platform of the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure, Sweden. Mainly interested in genomics and multi-omics data.

Contact

RaukR [at] nbis.se