<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>The CCP11 project [2] aims to foster bioinformatics
in the UK through conferences, workshops and
the provision of Web resources. In March 2002,
CCP11 held a meeting in Manchester, UK, on the
functional analysis of microarrays. This was part of
Manchester BioinformaticsWeek—three consecutive
short bioinformatics meetings held in the attractive
setting of the Chancellor's Conference Centre
at the University of Manchester. The other meetings
in the series were a workshop on ontologies
and the 12th Annual MASAMB (Mathematical and
Statistical Aspects of Molecular Biology) Conference.
Many delegates were able to attend more than
one meeting, which led to a useful cross-fertilization
of ideas across the bioinformatics community. The
CCP11 meeting shared with MASAMB a strong
emphasis on the statistical analysis and interpretation
of data—most often image intensity data.</p>
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Comp Funct Genomics. 2002 Oct; 3(5):451-454