Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
213 lines (154 loc) · 11.6 KB

index.md

File metadata and controls

213 lines (154 loc) · 11.6 KB

CRUK Bioinformatics Summer School 2020: Functional Genomics

CRUK Cambdridge Centre.
22nd - 28th July 2020: Zoom virtual school, University of Cambridge

Site short-cut: https://tinyurl.com/crukss2020

Overview

Functional genomics looks at the dynamic aspects of how the genome functions within cells, particularly in the form of gene expression (transcription) and gene regulation. This workshop surveys current methods for functional genomics using high-throughput technologies.

High-throughput technologies such as next generation sequencing (NGS) can routinely produce massive amounts of data. However, such datasets pose new challenges in the way the data have to be analyzed, annotated and interpreted which are not trivial and are daunting to the wet-lab biologist. This course covers state-of-the-art and best-practice tools for bulk RNA-seq and ChIP-seq data analysis, and will also introduce approaches in prognostic gene signatures.

Outline timetable here.

Audience

Enthusiastic and motivated wet-lab biologists who want to gain more of an understanding of NGS data and eventually progress to analysing their own data

Pre-requisites

The course will include a great deal of hands-on work in R and at the command line. In order for you to make the most of the course we strongly recommend that you take an introductory course, or have sufficient experience in the following areas:

  • R
  • Unix
  • Introductory statistics

More specific requirements and references can be found here

(**Data files for course are here. There is a zip-file for each course and a sizes.txt file with zip sizes ** )

Instructors & helpers

Support Team

Craik-Marshall team.

  • Alexia Cordona.
  • Cathy Hemmings.
  • Paul Judge.
    CRUK Cambridge Centre.
  • Louisa Bellis.
  • Justin Holt.

Aims

During this course you will learn about:-

  • How aligned sequencing reads, genome sequences and genomic regions are represented in R.
  • How to handle NGS data and read sequencing data with R, perform quality assessment and execute standard pipelines for (bulk) RNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq analysis
  • How to do downstream analysis of transcription factor (TF) and epigenomic (histone mark) ChIP-seq data.

Objectives

After the course you should be able to:-

  • Know what tools are available in Bioconductor for HTS analysis and understand the basic object-types that are utilised.
  • Process and quality control short read sequencing data
  • Given a set of gene identifiers, find out whereabouts in the genome they are located, and vice-versa
  • Produce a list of differentially expressed genes from an RNA-Seq experiment.
  • Import a set of ChIP-Seq peaks and investigate their biological context.

Day 0 (July 21st )

**SOCIAL 18:00 - .. Informal get-together on Zoom with optional pub-quiz. Meet fellow attendees and some of your trainers.

School Shared document is here **

Day 1 (July 22nd)

Zoom Virtual Training room.
July 22nd - 28th 2020


Day 2 (July 23rd)


Day 3 (July 24th)

**6pm SOCIAL: Zoom Talk: “Perspectives in AI for Cancer Bioinformatics by Rory Stark”. **


Weekend - recharge your batteries!

SOCIAL: Virtual punting tour of Cambridge

SOCIAL: Virtual tour of Cambridge University Botanical Gardens

SOCIAL/WORK: Virtual tour of CRUK Cambridge Institute

SOCIAL: Aeriel 360 panoramas of Cambridge venues

WORK: For those who feel the need to brush up on their linux skills

WORK: For those wanting an R course with extensive use of Tidyverse

Day 4 (July 27th)


# Day 5 (July 28th)

Please don't forget to fill in the survey Corrected 28.7/2020