This one-day meeting aims at providing the audience with a comprehensive overview and in-depth comparison of currently available research tools, including array-, bead- or massive parallel sequencing-based platforms as well as experimental considerations in relation to expression-, genomic-, and epigenetic-profiling. Illustrated by real-life examples, various internationally acknowledged speakers will provide the attendee with critical experimental design parameters. Pitfalls associated with specific technologies as well as their solution will be discussed extensively.