The Paul Sabatier University and the INRA of Toulouse provide 2x5 days of training, aiming to facilitate the interactions between statisticians and biologists using microarrays.
During these sessions, statisticians (professors, researchers and engineers from the University and the INRA) teach 14 biologists how to deal with the analysis of their microarray data.

The sessions are divided into two weeks.
First week : "refresher course"

• Statistical basics : descriptive statistics, probabilities... (3 days, Jacques Badia)
• R for beginners (1 day, Magali San Cristobal)
• Pre-treatment of microarray data : image analysis, correction, normalization, available tools on the platform of Toulouse (1 day, Sergueï Sokol)

• Principal Component Analysis, Multidimensionnal Scaling (1 day, Philippe Besse)
• Classification, Canonic analysis (1 day, Alain Baccini)
• Linear model : variance analysis, test, multiple comparison (1 day, Magali San Cristobal, Christèle Robert-Granié)
• Case study : use of the previously learnt methods on a dataset (1 day, Sébastion Déjean)
• Data reconciliation : back to biological issues, Bioconductor (1 day, Christophe Klopp)