This a 2 day course/workshop at UTH targeted to postgraduate level (or advanced undergraduate) biostatistics or bioinformatics students. Due to COVID-19 restrictions the workshop will take place virtually using teleconference (MS TEAMS) on July 22-23/2021. Topics will include:

• Methods and principles of meta-analysis (22/7/2021, 16.00-18.30):
  • effect sizes
  • statistical methods
  • bias
  • meta-regression
• Multivariate methods of meta-analysis (22/7/2021, 18.30-21.00):
  • genetic association data
  • diagnostic tests
  • multiple outcomes
  • multiple treatments
• Meta-analysis of gene expression and genomewide association data (23/7/2021, 16.00-18.30):
  • differentially expressed genes
  • GWAS
• Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) (23/7/2021, 18.30-21.00):
  • Biological Networks
  • Over-representation analysis (ORA)
  • Functional Class Scoring (FCS)
  • Pathway Topology (PT) methods