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Gene co-expression networks are increasingly used to analyze gene expression data (microarrays). Co-expression networks facilitate a systems level view of the transcriptome that moves beyond lists of differentially expressed genes, hence providing a natural bridge between individual genes and systems level approaches. Subsets of highly connected genes (modules) may correspond to biologically or clinically important pathways. A module-centric view allows one to study properties of and relationships among biological processes, molecular functions etc. In this workshop, we discuss recent and future work regarding the use of gene co-expression networks for
We also discuss theoretical properties of the methods and important open research questions. This workshop should be of interest to systems biologists, systems geneticists, computational biologists, bioinformaticians, statisticians, mathematicians, and other quantitative types.
While this workshop focuses on gene co-expression network
methods, many of the results (e.g., module
detection, topological properties of networks, etc.) also pertain to
networks in various other settings.
The workshop will be held in room Seaview A of the Hyatt Regency hotel in Long Beach, on October 5th, 2007, starting at 8:50 AM and ending around 5:30 PM. Program details are provided below. A detailed floorplan as well as directions to the hotel are available here (pdf format).
Each talk
will be allotted 25 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions. The list of speakers with titles of their
talks and abstracts is provided below.
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Page by Peter Langfelder. Gene network image courtesy of Jake Lusis Lab; ICSB
logo courtesy of ICSB 2007.