Course Overview:
The introduction to hands-on Bioconductor workshop is a virtual two-half-day training to provide an overview of leveraging open-source Bioconductor resources for research studies.
There will be two courses offered by the BioConductor community:
- Introduction to Bioconductor Annotation Resources
- (Thursday, 29th April)
- Epidemiology for Bioinformaticians
- (Friday, 30th April 2021)
Keywords: Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, study design, causal inference, BioConductor packages
Intended Audience:
The course is designed for biomedical research graduate students (master, PhD), early-stage researchers, and bioinformaticians who would like to build their capacity in data analysis using Bioconductor resources and are familiar with R syntax and using RStudio.
Skill level of training: Intermediate
Language: The course and materials are offered in English
Type of training: Online
Credential awarded: Meeting participant will receive a workshop certificate.
Workshop organisers: H3Africa, H3ABioNet, and the Bioconductor Community
Proposed workshop outcomes: The proposed courses will lay a foundation on how to efficiently use open-source Bioconductor resources for bioinformatics analysis.
The course tools and packages relevant for this course will be hosted on Orchestra, an online platform for teaching and learning hands-on computational skills in self-contained and launchable workshop environments.
The course will be in two main forms which include;
- lectures to introduce basic concepts.
- demonstrations and hands-on computer practicals on analysis pipeline/workflows for mapping identifiers, querying multiple data sources, performing epidemiological causal inference, and visualizing results in high-resolution publication format.
The hands-on sessions may provide an opportunity for participants to work with their data. Instructors for the course have experience in developing and applying methods for research analysis and also involved in developing statistical methods/algorithms and Bioconductor packages.
Refer to the attached document for more details and additional information on the workshop.
Applications are now closed
Training materials availability: Training materials for this course are not currently available.