BISC Workshops

One of the missions of BISC is to promote cross-disciplinary learning experiences. Workshops are designed to help students, faculty, and staff learn informatic topics outside their field of speciality.

Workshops are supplemented by Seminars. See the right-hand box for links to departmental seminars.

BISC Sponsored Workshops

Oct. 18 & 19, 2010

SAS Workshop

The Department of Economics, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Bioinformatics and Information Science Center in partnership with SAS Institute welcomed WKU faculty, staff and student participants to "Getting Started with SAS Analytics Pro Using SAS Enterprise Guide"

Workshop Presenters:

Dr. Tom R. Bohannon is an analytical consultant for SAS Institute, specializing in applying analytical methods to business problems in industry and higher education.

Dr. F. Michael Speed is currently a professor of statistics at Texas A&M University. Dr. Speed is also the Director of Online Learning and an Associate Dean of Technology Mediated Instruction in the College of Science at Texas A&M.

Online Tutorials

NCBI BLAST Tutorials http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

NCBI Entrez Tutorial http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/tutor.html

NCBI PubMed Tutorial http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmedtutorial/

NCBI Structure Tutorial (Cn3D) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/CN3D/cn3dtut.shtml

The NCBI Handbook NCBI handbook

A Science Primer, NCBI http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/primer/

2can Bioinformatics support portal http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/tutorials/index.html

UBC Bioinformatics Centre tutorials http://www.bioinformatics.ca/links_directory/category/education/tutorials-and-directed-learning-resources

BISC Sponsored Workshops

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Online Tutorials

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