Message from Frédéric Schütz, Bioinformatics Core Facility Dear CIG members, some of you may not know that the Génopode building hosts a statistical consulting service offered by the "Bioinformatics Core Facility" of the SIB. In order to improve this situation, we would like to invite you for a short meeting where we will tell you what we can do for you, and we hope you can tell us how we can help you ! Topics may include: - particular statistical problems you're faced with during your work - general questions you may have on statistics - questions on the R statistical program - questions about presenting data, either for articles or for presentations - questions about statistical methods described in journal articles - courses or workshops you would be interested in ... or anything else that comes to your mind ... The meeting will take place on Monday 24 January at 10:00 in the CIG reading room (2nd floor), or, if you can not make it, on Friday 28 January, same place and time. Please let me know by email if you are planning to come to one of these meetings; if you can not make it, do not hesitate to send your comments/questions by email. If these meetings show the existence of a need, we will organize regular meetings during which statistics questions can be discussed. Also, while this first meeting is about statistics, we may also, if there is a need, consider extending the topic to bioinformatics in general, in collaboration with the other SIB groups present in the building. Hope to see you there ! Frédéric