Big Data in Immunology

Overview

Are you interested in exploring public datasets? Or using shared immunology study results to further facilitate your research and gain insights into discoveries? Strengthen your funding requests? Want to develop analytical skills and hear from those who have done it?

The open-access ImmPort database provides publicly available clinical trial and immunology research datasets and bioinformatics tools for analyses. ImmPort is an NIAID-funded data repository created to share immunology-related research data with the scientific community. ImmPort currently shares over 900 studies with new data released quarterly.

Attend the ImmPort workshop to hear from scientists who have published on repurposed data. Plus, attend for a hands-on introduction to the ImmPort database and become familiar with mining the ImmPort data. Experts from the Immunology Database and Analysis Portal (ImmPort) will teach the workshop.

Learning Objectives

• Introduction to open-access clinical trial initiatives
• Accessing publicly available clinical trial and research datasets in the ImmPort database
• Exposure to data reuse, reproducibility, and reanalysis of an open-access clinical trial and immunology research datasets and bioinformatics tools for analyses.
• Hands-on tutorial on preliminary data analyses of an ImmPort study incorporating AI tools.

Course Prerequisite

No strict requirements of prior knowledge; perhaps some familiarity with clinical trials, high-throughput technologies (e.g., Flow Cytometry, RNA-Seq, Luminex), and Python programming recommended. In the hands-on session, we will illustrate methods to access and analyze ImmPort study data using Jupyter notebooks and AI tools.

Reviews

Read why last year’s attendees enjoyed the workshop:

• “I am now more familiar with repositories to look in to reanalyze data.”
• “The workshop itself encouraged me to update my skills in R and Rstudio.”
• “I will start scavenging in ImmPort and try out metacyto.”
• “The lectures were great and really informative.”

Chair

Sanchita Bhattacharya, University of California – San Francisco

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