The 2009 edition of Statistical Methods for Post-genomic Data workshop, SMPGD’09,  took place on the 29th and 30th of January 2009 at AgroParisTech.

Invited speakers

• D. Wilkinson - Bayesian inference for biochemical network dynamics [Slides]
• K. Borgwardt - Beyond the Support Vector Machine: Kernels in Bioinformatics [Abstract, slides]
• C. Matias - Statistical Alignment [Slides]

Session "Cancer applications" (chair E. Barillot)

• A. Biton - An exploratory analysis of signalling pathways involved in bladder cancer using Independent Component Analysis [Slides]
• S. Heath - Strategies for handling stratification arising from the use of multinational cohorts in genome wide association studies [Slides]
• G. Rigaill - DNA Copy number analysis. Defining a probability for the segmentation space  [Slides]
• E. Gravier - CGH data to predict early metastasis of lymph-node-negative and small size primary breast cancer
  
  

Session "Large dimension data" (chair F. Picard)

• D. Goldstein - Gene expression signatures in human disease: an illustration with genomic data on breast cancer [Abstract, slides]
• G. Marot , J.-L. Foulley, C.-D. Mayer, F. Jaffrézic - Microarray meta-analysis based on p-value or moderated effect size combinations [Abstract, slides]
• A. Antoniadis, P. Fryzlewicz, F. Letué - The Dantzig selector in Cox's proportional hazards model [Abstract]
• T. Mary-Huard and S. Robin - Wrapper aggregation for classification [Abstract, slides]

Session "Phylogeny" (chair A. Bar-Hen)

• M. Gouy - Efficient Likelihood Computations with Nonreversible Models of Evolution [Abstract, slides]
• M. Mariadassoui - Phylogeny Robustness: Influence of Species [Slides]
• Z. Yang - Over-confident Bayesian & molecular phylogenetics [Slides]

Contributions

• J-L. Foulley & M. Gautier - Detecting selected loci via hierarchical Bayesian models and kindred methodology with an application to SNPs in cattle
  
• A. Trubuil, V. Monnet, L. Lopez-Kleine - Protein role prediction methods: which are the relevant data? [Asbtract, slides]
• V. Zuber and Korbinian Strimmer - Gene Ranking and Differentiel Expression under Correlation [Abstract, slides]
• M. Jeanmougin, G. Nuel and M. Guedj - Should we abandon the t-test : a statistical comparison of 8 differential gene expression tests [Abstract, slides]
• N. Philippe, A. Boureux, L. Bréhèlin, J. Tarhio, T. Commes, E. Rivals - Estimation of sequence errors and prediction capacity in transcriptomic and DNA-protein interaction assays [Abstract]

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Organization Committee

• Philippe Besse (INSA, Toulouse)
• Sébastien Déjean (Univ. Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3)
• Sylvie Huet (INRA, Jouy en Josas)
• Stéphane Robin (INA PG, Paris)

Steering Committee

• Philippe Broet (INSERM, Villejuif, France)
• Gilles Celeux (INRIA, Orsay, France)
• Jelle Goeman (Leiden University, Netherlands)
• Pascal Massart (Univ. Orsay Paris-Sud, France)
• Jean-Philippe Vert (Ecole des Mines, Fontainebleau, France)
• Alexander Zien (Max Planck Institute, Tuebingen, Germany)
• + all members of the organization committee