May Institute 2018

May Institute
Computation and statistics for mass spectrometry and proteomics

April 30–May 11, 2018, Northeastern University, Boston MA

Organizers : Meena Choi, Brendan MacLean and Olga Vitek

The May Institute focuses on computational and statistical aspects of quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomics. The course combines keynote presentations, introductory lectures, practical training, and informal personal discussions.

Instructors of the course are leading experts in this field, who contributed numerous experimental and computational methods and software. The target audience are both beginners and experienced scientists, who would like to strengthen their computational and statistical expertise. We also welcome computer scientists, bioinformaticians, data scientists, statisticians and engineers interested in learning about working with data from modern biotechnologies. The participants will have many opportunities to ask questions, and will be able to present their research.

Program Overview

• April 30 – May 2, 2018 : Targeted proteomics with Skyline
• April 30 – May 2, 2018 : Proteomics and metabolomics with OpenMS
• May 2-4, 2018 : Beginner’s statistics in R
• May 2-4, 2018 : Advanced R
• May 7-9, 2018 : Statistics for quantitative mass spectrometry
• May 7-9, 2018 : Visualization of biomolecular data
• May 9-11, 2018 : Capstone – case studies in data-independent acquisition (DIA)

This program is supported by the 1R25EB023929-01 award from the National Institutes of Health, and by German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure