Links
Companies
Agilent Technologies: Developers of the Genespring GX gene expression analysis suite
Affymetrix: Suppliers of microarray Genechips©
Qiagen: Suppliers of RNA extraction kits
Nikon: Manufacturers of the TE 2000s microscope and SL microcut laser capture system
Ambion: Suppliers of RNaseZap (spray for removing/destroying RNases)
Programming
Matlab: Maths related numerical programming environment and programming language
R: Statistics based programming environment and programming language
Bioconductor: Library of packages written in R for use in bioinformatics and data analysis, particularly for microarray data
tcl/tk: Widget based programming language for GUI construction
Supervisors
Dr. Michael Khan: Head of Molecular Medicine at the University of Warwick, and Director of the Lipid and Cardiovascular Risk Clinic at the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire
Dr. Stella Pelengaris: Senior Research Fellow in Molecular Medicine at the Medical school at the University of Warwick
Professor David Epstein: Emeritus Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick
Colleagues
Dr. Helen Bird: Head of Molecular Biology Services at the University of Warwick
Dr. Heather Turner: Research Fellow in the Statistics Department at the University of Warwick
Dr. Ewan Hunter: Agilent technologies
Dr. Lesley Ward: Molecular Biology Services personnel at the University of Warwick
Dr. Susan Davis: Molecular Biology Services personnel at the University of Warwick
Doctoral Training Centres
Life Sciences Interface : Program set up by the EPSRC to 'empower the engineering and physical sciences communities to engage with the life sciences.'
LSI DTC Oxford: Life Sciences Interface Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Oxford
Chemical Biology Centre: Imperial College, London
White Rose DTC: Doctoral Training Centres at the University of Leeds and the University of Sheffield
Molecular Organisation and Assembly in Cells : Doctoral training centre, University of Warwick
Others
Molecular Biology Service: Sequencing, genotyping, real-time PCR, and microarray services for the University of Warwick Biology department
Introduction to R: An introduction to using R, created by Sam Robson, Martin Edwards and Peter Cock
ChipClub: University of Warwick microarray user's group
Warwick Graduate School: Providing administrative support, advice and assistance for postgraduate students at the University of Warwick
University of Warwick Library: University of Warwick library services online
University of Warwick Tae Kwon Do Club: Website for the Warwick practitioners of the Korean military martial art of Tae Kwon Do
R/TclTk help page: Extremely useful help pages for using Tcl/Tk GUI construction widgets in R (written by James Wettenhall)
R/TclTk Forum: Forum for developers using TclTk GUI component widgets in R
Thesis Submission Guide: Information on successful thesis submissions, including a 'Guide to Examinations for Higher Degrees by Research'
Warwick Systems Biology Centre: Newly built centre for systems biology at the University of Warwick
