Further learning
On-demand training
If you work in the life sciences, you may find that you’re spending less time doing experiments and more time analysing huge amounts of biological data. On-demand training is here to help you do this quickly and efficiently.
On-demand training provides free courses on Europe’s most widely used data resources, created by experts at EMBL-EBI and collaborating institutes. You do not need to have any previous experience of bioinformatics to benefit from this training. We want to help you to be a highly competent user of our data resources; we are not trying to train you to become a bioinformatician.
You can use On-demand training to learn in your own time and at your own pace. You can repeat the courses as many times as you like, or just complete part of a course if you want to brush up on how to perform a specific task.
Webinars
Our webinar series is a freely accessible collection of live seminars focused on EMBL-EBI resources. They provide both brief introductions to a range of databases and more in-depth coverage of new features and tools to assist you in your research.
Each webinar is delivered by an EMBL-EBI expert and is followed by a question and answer session. The webinars are recorded and continue to be freely available here.
FTP
All our course material is freely available, to check out materials from all of our previous courses. Please copy and paste the following link into your internet browser and search by year – http://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/training/.
About the practicals
Some of the practicals make use of a Linux-based command line interface, and R statistical packages. We recommend completing some basic tutorials on this topic. There are many tutorials available online and here are some that may be of help:
- To complete the following suggested tutorials you may want to install Ubuntu for Windows Users if you are using a computer with a Windows Operating System.
- Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous – tutorial
- Learn Enough Command Line to Be Dangerous – manipulating files
- Introduction to R tutorials – Programming basics (if you are completing the R tutorials make sure you complete this one first)
- Introduction to R tutorials – Data Visualization Basics
Regardless of your current knowledge, we encourage the course participants to use these, and other materials, to prepare for attending the course and future work in this area.