Course content

To see details about the live Cancer Genomics 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.

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

FormatSubjectTrainer
Introduction to cancer genomics and transcriptomics
Introduction to cancer genomics and its caveats Tobias Rausch 
High-throughput sequencing and single-nucleotide variant analysis in cancerDaniela Robles-Espinoza
Practical: Alignment and SNV analysisDaniela Robles-Espinoza, Patricia Basurto and Kenya Lizbeth Contreras-Ramírez
Structural and copy number variation, and mutational signatures
Structural and copy-number variation analysisTobias Rausch 
Practicals: SV/CNV analysis using short-readsTobias Rausch 
Interrogating cancer genomes using long readsTobias Rausch 
Mutational processes and clonal population structure in cancer genomesJing Su
Practicals: Mutational signatures and clonal population structure analysis in cancer genomesJing Su
Single-cell sequencing in cancer
Introduction to single-cell technologies in cancer genomicsSimone Zaccaria
Single-cell cancer research in non-model organismsVeronica Busa
Practical: Deconvolution of the clonality of a tumor using single-cell transcriptomic dataEstefania Vázquez and Gabriel Pereira
Short-read RNA-seq analysisAlexey Larionov
Long-read RNA-seq analysisAlexey Larionov
CRISP-Cas9 genome editingFrancesco Iorio
Further learning