Dr Daniel Pass has over a decade of experience running bioinformatic training courses with classes ranging from 70 students to small groups of 5-10, or one-on-one private tutoring. This has included masters bioinformatics courses as a lecturer at Cardiff University, and courses directly to researchers with the Wellcome Trust, NERC (UK), and Physalia courses.

Whatever your needs we will be able to cater for you. See below for some example courses that we provide and to register interest. You can also get in touch to discuss bespoke options. Unless specified, all training is provided by Dr Pass

My Teaching style – Dr Daniel Pass

I like to teach by varying between the theoretical concepts and examples via the practical skills, both of which are essential. Not understanding how the programs are working is a recipe for false results! Practically we will work by understanding the theory first and then small tasks and challenges to complete, followed up with perfect worked examples.

From experience, I find the challenge of constructing the commands yourselves first a much better strategy than courses which provide you with the full command list straight away. It is more challenging but on those courses the only skills you practice is copy+paste! Experience has shown that hands on practical work means attendees retain the knowledge longer and are more confident applying the processes to their own research beyond the class.

I also like to allocate the final session of a course as a “bring your own data” time, where we can discuss the first steps of applying the skills you have learned with test data to your research and move from training to practice.

Courses

Our flagship course is an intensive five day “Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics” which briefly touches on a wide range of these topics (NGS data and Quality Control, Genome Assembly/Annotation, Phylo-genetics/genomics, intro to RNAseq…) and gives a broad overview and hands-on skills from which you should feel confident to dive in further yourself.

We also provide courses which are in depth and specialised. Prior courses that have been developed and ran include:

  • Introduction to Linux and handling NGS data (specialised for Biologists)
  • RNAseq/Transcriptomics (from raw data to manuscript figures)
  • Bacterial Genome Assembly and annotation
  • Complex genomes and long read data (Oxford Nanopore & Pacific Biosciences)
  • Microbiome & Microbial community analysis (Amplicion studies including 16S rRNA & ITS)
  • Metagenomics (MAGs assembly, quantification, and annotation)
  • CHiPseq & genome accessibility (ATAC, MNase/DNaseSeq)

Currently courses are being scheduled for 2022 and 2023. If you would be interested in being contacted with upcoming courses please add your contact details below and your area of interest, or get in touch to discuss bespoke courses.