Qlucore founder co-leading course at FOCIS

Professor Magnus Fontes, one of Qlucore's founders, is co-leading this year’s course in computational immunology at FOCIS 2016. FOCIS 2016 is the annual meeting of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies which brings together over 800 clinicians and researchers from across immune-mediated diseases for 4 days of intensive education and networking opportunities. The course on computational immunology is aimed at scientists involved or interested in the use of multi-dimensional data generated by modern genomics and proteomics technologies such as mass/flow cytometry, next-generation sequencing and microarrays. The course will provide a better basic understanding of modern statistical and mathematical concepts necessary for analysis and interpretation, and is aimed at scientists wanting a deeper knowledge around how to work with high dimensional multivariate data. The course will allow participants to:  Discuss the opportunities opened up by the use of genomics and proteomics technologies in modern immunology.  Describe scientific reports on analysis of multi-dimensional data (NGS, microarray, mass/flow cytometry data analysis).  Discuss basic principles, challenges and applications of bioinformatics data analysis.  Describe the main components, tasks and challenges of genomics-based project in a grant proposal.  Describe dangers connected with overfitting, multiple hypothesis testing and bias. The course in computational immunology will be held on Tuesday, June 21 at the Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center Boston, Massachusetts. For further details: http://www.focisnet.org/2013-03-07-14-02-26/computational-immunology