Last week we have co-organized a Functional Genomics Workshop. At University of Ljubljana we have hosted an inspiring pack of scientists from the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research from Toronto. Part of the event was a hands-on workshop Data mining without programing, where we have used Orange to analyze data from systems biology. Data included a subset of Charlie Boone’s famous yeast interaction data and data from chemical genomics. For the program, info about the speakers, and panckages and šmorn check out workshop’s newspaper.

It is always a pleasure seeing a packed lecture room with all laptops running Orange. Attendees were assisted by members of the Biolab in Ljubljana. Hands-on program followed a set of short lectures we have crafted for intended audience – biologists. Everything ran smoothly. At the end, we got excited enough to promise a data import wizard for all those that have problems annotating the data with feature type tags. The deadline: two weeks from the end of the workshop.