EMERALD

Welcome

EMERALD (Empowering the Microarray-Based European Research Area to Take a Lead in Development and Exploitation) is a project to establish and disseminate quality metrics (QC), microarray standards and best laboratory practices (QA) throughout the European microarray community. More information can be found here or from our EMERALD leaflet that can be found here.

News

3rd Functional Genomics Conference, Functional Genomics and Desease, Innsbruck, Austria

25 April 2008

EMERALD will host a session at the ESF Functional Genomics Confernce in Innsbruck, Austria - October 1-4 2008. The session wil forcus on microarrays and clinical applications. More information about the meeting and our session can be found here. Deadlines are, 30 May 2008 for abstract submissions and 30 June 2008 for early registration.

EMERALD Workshops in 2008

25 January 2008

EMERALD will during 2008 host several workshops in associations with European meetings/conferences. An updated overview can be found here. Further information related to this workshops will occur at this webpage in near future.

Data Analysis Workshop

01 October 2007

CAMDA 2007 - EMERALD Data Analysis Workshop Session: Three travel bursaries for PhD students available. EMERALD will sponsor a workshop SessionĀ in Valencia, December 13, 2007, hosting by CAMDA 2007, to discuss ways to benchmark preprocessing techniques on public data like from MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC). More information can be found here.

EMERALD Sponsored Data Transformation Ontology Workshop

20 September 2007

Dates have been confirmed for the EMERALD sponsored workshop which will take place at the European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge between 5-9th November, 2007. More information, including the current agenda, can be found here.

EMERALD-MGED 10: Three funded bursaries for PhD students from the EU member countries

25 April 2007

For the Annual Microarray and Gene Expression Data Society meeting MGED 10 in Brisbane, September 2007, we are happy to announce three bursaries for PhD students from the European Union member countries, funded by EMERALD. More information can be found here.

EMERALD-MGED 10 Session Workshop

25 April 2007

EMERALD will co-sponsor a session on microarray quality issues at the Annual Microarray and Gene Expression Data Society meeting MGED 10 in Brisbane, September 2007. Talks will address the development and implementation of Quality Assurance and Quality Control measures in research, service, and diagnostics. It will be discussed how quality metrics can help to improve the selection and development of high quality datasets, and what particular quality criteria such metrics should address. The MGED10 session will be the first of a series of topical workshops that will be organized in the years to come, most of them linked to European meetings related to microarray data or technology.


European CommissionEMERALD is funded by the European Commission under the Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources (Project no. LSHG-CT-2006-037689).