14:30-15:30		Software demos
14:30-14:40		RESEARCHER'S DIGEST: Using gene annotations to classify gene lists into functional groups. pdf Juan Carlos Triviño, Juan Carlos Sánchez-Ferrero and Juan Carlos Oliveros.
14:40-14:50		BioinfoGP Tools: Small utilities for big research. pdf Juan Carlos Oliveros.
14:50-15:00		GEPAS: a web-based suite for microarray data analysis. pdf David Montaner, Joaquín Tárraga, Ignacio Medina, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Pablo Minguez, Eva Alloza, Fátima Al-Shahrour Núñez and Joaquín Dopazo.
15:00-15:10		BABELOMICS: a systems biology perspective in the functional annotation of transcriptomics experiments. pdf Fátima Al-Shahrour Núñez, Pablo Minguez, Joaquín Tarraga, Eva Alloza, Ignacio Medina, José Carbonell, David Montaner and Joaquín Dopazo.
15:10-15:20		How to analyze Microarray Data to develop biomarkers. pdf Ewan Hunter and Markus Dueringer.
15:20-15:30		Integromics AB1700 and ArrayUnlock: Two guides powered by Spotfire for analysis and functional interpretation of microarray data.  pdf Ramon Goñi and Pedro Carmona-Saez.
14:30-18:00		Emerald Workshop
14:30-15:30		I part
14:30-14:40		Introduction. Martin Kuiper
14:40-15:10		Converging to consensus: the end and the beginning of differential gene expression microarray analysis. pdf Federico Goodsaid
15:10-15:30		Spatial Defects in 5896 HG-U133A GeneChips. pdf William Langdon
16:00-18:00		II part
16:00-16:20		Microarray Quality Metrics. pdf Audrey Kauffmann, Wolfgang Huber.
16:20-16:40		PhD student (microarray data quality and standards). Explaining the Sources of Discrepancies in Gene Expression Profiles Generated on three Whole-Genome Gene Expression Microarray Platforms. pdf Maouche Seraya.
16:40-17:00		PhD student (microarray data quality and standards). AffyDEComp: towards a benchmark for differential expression methods. pdf Richard Pearson
17:00-17:20		The EMERALD ontology efforts. pdf James Malone.
17:20-18:00		Open forum discussion. lead by Paul Van Hummelen
14:30-19:00		Posters
		RESEARCHER'S DIGEST: Using text-mining techniques for classifying lists of genes.  pdf Juan Carlos Triviño, Juan Carlos Sánchez-Ferrero and Juan Carlos Oliveros.
		The EMERALD Consortium. EMERALD: Enhancing Microarray Data Quality.  pdf
		Data quality issues in a large dataset of published microarrays (meta-analysis) pdf Martin Dugas, Hans-Ulrich Klein, Joachim Gerß and Sylvia Merk.
		Explaining the Sources of Discrepancies in Gene Expression Profiles Generated on three Whole-Genome Gene Expression Microarray Platforms. pdf Seraya Maouche, Odette Poirier, Tiphaine Godefroy, Robert Olaso, Ivo Gut, Gilles Montalescot and François Cambien
		ImageQualityQuantificator - Interactive Spot Quality Evaluation of Microarray Images.  pdf Andreas Jahnen, Anke Wienecke, Laurent Vallar and Pierre Plumer.
		Gene expression profile of hypoxia-induced kidney pathology in sickle transgenic mice.  pdf Anne Rybicki, Raouf Alami, Mary Fabry, Alfred Adomako, Tina Urphanisvili, Steven Brunnert, James Pullman and Ronald Nagel.
		Identification of closely linked SNP markers using information theory.  pdf Dhananjay Raje, Venkatesh Krishnan, Saurabh Bundela and M.S. Rekha Rao.
		Biologists and Bioinformaticians team up and explore the interplay between UV radiation, P53 modification and gene expression.  pdf Oskar Bruning, Wendy Bruins, martijs jonker, Edwin Zwart, Tessa van der Hoeven-Dillerop, Jeroen Pennings, Han Rauwerda, Annemieke de Vries and Timo Breit.
		Integration and Interpretation of Microarray Data - Explorations and Ideas.  pdf Suraj Menon, Peter Giles, Hui Sun Leong, Ian Brewis and David Kipling.
		AffyDEComp: towards a benchmark for differential expression methods.  pdf Richard Pearson.
		Making sense of microarray gene lists using text mining and over-representation analysis.  pdf Hui Sun Leong, Peter Giles, Suraj Menon and David Kipling.
		Breast cancer survival prediction using merged gene expression data sets.  pdf Haleh Yasrebi and Philipp Bucher.
		Looking at Similarities through Relevance Vector Machine.  pdf Daniela marconi, Valter Gattei and Renato Campanini.
		A genomics signature of prognosis for stage II colorectal cancer derived from FFPE tissue.  pdf Claire wilson, julie black, Juergen von Frese, Austin Tanney, Steven Walker, Robert Holt, Gavin Oliver, Stewart McWilliams, Andreas Winter, Peter Kerr, Vitali Proutski, Jude Mulligan, Alistair Scott, Susan Farragher, Stephen Moore, Elaine Kay, R Cummins, U McDermott, R Wilson, H Mulcahy, J O'Sullivan, M Biniecka, K Sheahan, D O'Donoghue, Karl Mulligan, Richard Kennedy, PG Johnston and DP Harkin.
		Visualization and combined analysis of SNP and gene expression data with Rcnat.  pdf Sylvia Merk, Hans-Ulrich Klein, Claudia Haferlach and Martin Dugas.
		Identifying clusters of functionally related transcripts using large scale gene expression analysis.  pdf Jai Prakash Mehta, Lorraine O'Driscoll, Niall Barron, Martin Clynes and Padraig Doolan.
		A new performance criterion for classification methods for microarray gene expression data.  pdf Cristina Botella, Joan Ferré and Ricard Boqué.
		Finding cancer genes through meta-analysis of microarray experiments: Rank aggregation via the cross entropy algorithm.  pdf Vasyl Pihur, Susmita Datta and Somnath Datta.
		Tenfold improved performance of spatial normalization of microarrays.  pdf Thomas Tuechler, Peter Sykacek, Richard P. Auburn, Lisa A. Meadows, Bettina Fischer, Gos Micklem, Steve Russell and David P. Kreil.
		Virus Adaptation by Manipulation of Host's Gene Expression.  pdf Patricia Agudelo-Romero, Pablo Carbonell, Miguel A. Perez Amador and Santiago F. Elena.
		Modeling and Optimization of the Interaction between RNA Silencing Pathway and Viral Suppressors of Silencing.  pdf Guillermo Rodrigo, Javier Carrera, Alfonso Jaramillo and Santiago F. Elena.
		Inference and modelling of regulatory transcriptional networks from transcriptomic data.  pdf Javier Carrera, Guillermo Rodrigo and Alfonso Jaramillo.