<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-a1d710c8-7fff-cb3f-76d0-5bd5bf0355ca" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:9pt;margin-bottom:9pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dear all, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:9pt;margin-bottom:9pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We are pleased to announce the following SIB course on: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align: center;margin-top:9pt;margin-bottom:9pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">First steps with R in Life Sciences, 27 - 28 October 2020, Lausanne</span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">R is a complete, flexible and open source system for statistical analysis and graphics, which has become a tool of choice for biologists and biomedical scientists who need to analyze and visualize large amounts of data.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">This 2-day course will give an introduction to R and Rstudio (an integrated development environment for R) in an interactive manner. Participants will receive example data sets to practice data manipulation, graphical exploration and statistical hypothesis testing.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">This course will take place in Lausanne with rules complying to COVID situation (distances and hygiene).</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Should the Covid-19 situation in the coming weeks evolve so that physical meetings are not recommended by the Swiss Government, we will switch to a virtual event on the same date, restricted to registered participants only.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:9pt;margin-bottom:9pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Further detailed information, prerequisites and application form are available </span><a href="https://www.sib.swiss/training/course/2020-10-R" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">here</span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:9pt;margin-bottom:9pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at <a href="mailto:training@sib.swiss" class="">training@sib.swiss</a>. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:9pt;margin-bottom:9pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Best regards,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:9pt;margin-bottom:9pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Valeria</span></p><div class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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