Hands-on training at EBI - EMBO Practical Course on Analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing Data

Title: EMBO Practical Course on Analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing Data
Date: 23-29 October 2011
Venue: EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, Nr Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK
Organisers: Gabriella Rustici
Admin Support: Frank O'Donnell
Registration Opens: 1st June 2011
Registration Deadline: Closed

Course Overview

Is it right for me?

This course is aimed at advanced PhD students and post-doctoral researchers who are applying or planning to apply high throughput sequencing technologies and bioinformatics methods in their research.
The aim of this course is to familiarize the participants with advanced data analysis methodologies and provide hands-on training on the latest analytical approaches.

What will I learn?

Lectures will give insight into how biological knowledge can be generated from RNA-seq and ChIP-seq experiments and illustrate different ways of analyzing such data. Practicals will consist of computer exercises that will enable the participants to apply statistical methods to the analysis of RNA-seq and ChIP-seq data under the guidance of the lecturers and teaching assistants.

Familiarity with the technology and biological use cases of high throughput sequencing is required, as is some experience with R/Bioconductor.

What will it cover?

The course covers data analysis of RNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq experiments.
Topics will include: short read alignment using Bowtie/BWA; data handling and visualisation, region identification, differential expression, data quality assessment and statistical analysis, using R/Bioconductor.

Programme

Course Materials

Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5 + 6

Trainers

Marco Chierici, FBK – MPBA, Trento, Italy
Marco Roncador, FBK – MPBA, Trento, Italy
Nicolas Delhomme, EMBL, Heidelberg
Kathi Zarnack, EBI
Borbala Gerle, EBI
Benilton Carvalho, CRI, Cambridge
Wolfgang Huber, EMBL, Heidelberg
John Marioni, EBI