At 2pm on 21st, Oct. 2009, Professor Mr. ShiYu, specially-appointed by our center, held an academic lecture with the head topic of “Omics Era and its Impact on Biomedical Research，Are we ready to be the new sheriffs in town? ” in the multifunctional meeting room of Floor 12th, Building No.1.
    Professor Mr ShiYu is deputy director and Chief Statistician of Vanderbilt University Cancer Center, also specially appointed professor by our center.  His orientation is to establish a powerful and integrated sharing and R/D platform for Biological Statistics, including hardware, software and professional statisticians. The platform is intended to provide an adequate support of Biological Statistics for Cancer Institute and large-scale clinical trials, which ranges from design of experiments, project application, data analysis and article writing.
    After the successful academic report, interested topics and professional issues are well discussed mutually between Professor ShiYu and audiences.  Finally the lecture ended in a warm and cordial atmosphere.

Abstract：
    The last decade has seen a veritable explosion in the amount of raw information generated by molecular biologists worldwide. Modern technology today allows the collection of biological information at an unprecedented level of detail and in increasingly vast quantities.  To reap real knowledge from the mountains of data produced, however, requires interdisciplinary skills-a background not only in biology but also in biostatistics and the bioinformatics tools and techniques of data analysis.  The motivation of this talk is to help the audience meet the challenges of genomic, e.g., microarray experiment, and proteomic, e.g., M(S)ALDI-TOF experiments, research.  The statistical challenges and opportunities of these researches include the experiment design, data pre-processing, quality control, data mining, pattern recognition, class comparison, model prediction, visualization, and interpretation.  The talk builds the foundation in the biostatistics, bioinformatics, and data analysis tools needed by biologists and provides the overview of high throughput assays needed by statisticians, mathematicians, and bioinformaticians.