Course content

To see details about the live Bioinformatics for PIs course and the original programme, you can refer to the course page and programme.

The contents table below outlines the different sessions that were included in the course, as well as the format of the materials (slides/videos/practicals) and each session’s trainer. Either proceed through the materials using the arrows at the end of each page or pick your topic of interest from the table below to skip straight to it.

 Presentation slides –  View or download the slides

 Recorded lectures – Watch the lecture videos 

 Practicals – View or download the slides, exercises, datasets, analysis scripts and results+

Format	Subject	Trainer
	Introductions to bioinformatics
	Perspectives – challenges and expectations	Sarah Morgan
	What is a bioinformatician?	Lee Larcombe
	The science of bioinformatics	Anna Swan
	Initiatives to support life sciences	Kim Gurwitz and Ajay Mishra
	Making the most of your data: Data quality, standards, ontologies and management
	The importance of managing data quality and content – ensuring reproducibility	Anna Swan and Dayane Araujo
	Describing your data – standards and ontologies	Antonia Lock
	Planning your data management	Heather Andrews
	Building your capability: Team competencies and compute resources
	Building your team competencies – what do you need and how do you gain them?	Sarah Morgan and Lee Larcombe
	What computational resources do you need to access, and how?	Mohamed Alibi
	Collaborative team working	Sarah Morgan, Lee Larcombe, Sarah Butcher, Alexey Larionov
	Keynote lecture – Tackling the hidden costs of computing: GREENER principles for sustainable bioinformatics	Loïc Lannelongue