Introduction to NGS Bioinformatics – September 2024

Synopsis

Bioinformatic analysis is rapidly becoming a core skill for biologists. As an extremely varied field, there are a number of common fundamental approaches that can kick-start your research. Here we will explore a range, including interpreting and cleaning raw sequence data, genome assembly with short (illumina) and long (Nanopore/PacBio) data, RNAseq processing and analysis, and mapping to reference genomes (used for genome re-seq, CHipSeq, DNAseq/MNaseseq etc)

Objectives

This course provides the knowledge to process and understand the latest sequencing methodologies and technologies, and develop your own skills going forwards. Each topic is complex and nuanced (and could take a whole week course for each subject!) but here we will introduce a range of core skills which you can build upon.

We will always work with real biological data and industry standard bioinformatic tools to ensure that you can reproduce everything we do when you leave the course, and with all the background theory to understand exactly how the results are generated.

See full course schedule here

Instructor: Dr. Daniel Pass
Location: Arcade Vaults, Cardiff, UK
Class size: 5-10 people
Date: 19-23rd September 2022

NOTE: The course will be run assuming attendees are comfortable navigating the linux command-line. If you don’t have this experience please consider the “Linux for Biologists” short course to prepare, which is half-price if booked together with this course. Be sure to book the combined-course to receive the discount!