GMRRF/Virtue Biologics offers Workshop on Next Generation Sequencing Data analysis | 17-20 August 2017

 

Prof. G. M. Reddy Research Foundation and

Virtue Biologics offers

Workshop on Next Generation Sequencing Data analysis

This course is designed for biologists who would like to get their hands dirty in analyzing their data instead of turning their data to someone else. Course consists of lectures with extensive hands-on practicals. Infrastructure would be provided by institute. Participants can bring their own laptops/notebooks, if they choose to be.

Participants are requested to make their own arrangements for transportation and accommodation. However, institute will guide the participants in securing the accommodation nearby places.


Course details:

1. Introduction (5hr)

Introduction to linux (Debian/Ubuntu) – 1 hr
Installation, removal of packages
Introduction to shell (bash)- 1 hr
Basic commands
Introduction to shell variables
Basic shell programming
Introduction to R and R-studio (Installation, launching, R scripts) – 3 hr
Installation
CRAN and Bioconductor
Data types
Reading and writing Data
Data Frames, slicing, and manipulation
Tidyverse family of functions
Additional resources

2. Genomics data formats, resources and visualization (8 hr)

Introduction to Genomics (1st and 2nd generation sequencing) - 2hr
File formats used in genomics data analysis
Introduction to Variants (SNVs, MNVs and DIVs) – 1hr
Introduction to Variant calling (including qc and alignment – GATK best practices workflow) – 2 hr
Introduction to Variant annotation (SNPeff, Variation reporter,  VEP)- 1hr
Data visualization (IGV) – 1hr
Genomics data operations (BED, GTF, VCF) - 1hr

3. Transcriptomics (6 hr)

Introduction to Transcriptome -1hr
Introduction to NGS (RNA-seq) – 1hr
Introduction to RNA-seq data analysis  3hr
§Introduction to Tuxedo suite workflow1       
§Introduction to Tuxedo suite workflow 2  
§Htseq workflow
Data visualization (Cummerbund, IGV) – 1hr


The course includes a rich collection of lectures by eminent and experienced people from Translational bioinformatics. Please note that this is not a placement course and is aimed at biologists, not at programmers and/or statisticians.

*Course starts from 17/8/2017 to 20/8/2017. Prior registration is mandatory which closes on 15/8/2017.

Venue:     Prof. G.M. Reddy Research Foundation, Uppal, Hyderabad.

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Ph: 9063920123

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