General Info

There will be theoretical lectures followed by practical sessions where students directly apply what they have learned. The programming will be mainly done in R.

The course will be beneficial for first year computational biology PhD students, and experimental biologists and medical scientists who want to begin data analysis or are seeking a better understanding of computational genomics and analysis of popular sequencing methods.

Students should expect to learn/get the following:

• General structure and tasks in genomic data analysis
• Performing operations on genomic intervals, finding nearest features, overlap operations, working with BAM files
• Understanding pre-processing and quality check for sequencing data
• Being able to perform differential expression and downstream analysis using RNA-seq data
• Being able to perform peak calling and downstream analysis using ChIP-seq data

We have done similar courses in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 . Here is a link to an article about the 2015 course.

Duration and Structure

The lectures and practicals will take the up full day. The candidates should plan for 9am to 6pm days. A typical day would comprise of lectures followed by hands-on exercises. There will also be additional scientific lectures showcasing application of computational genomics in current research projects.

A computer room with preset workstations will be provided. There will be one afternoon (mid-week) reserved for a social group activity

About the instructors

The instructors have decades of experience in data analysis for genomics. They are developers of Bioconductor packages such as methylKit, genomation and RCAS. In addition, they have been developing end-to-end genomics data analysis pipelines for RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, Bisulfite-seq, and scRNA-seq called PiGx

Application

Application deadline: 15 April 2019

Candidates must apply by filling in the online form. The form will have a section for submitting an abstract on current research interests and projects. Please be prepared to provide an abstract describing your current research projects and interest (max 1000 words).

There will also be questions on programming experience. These questions will help us organize a better course that is adjusted to applicant competencies. So, it is important you fill in those questions truthfully.

Cost

A course fee of 200 EUR will be charged to cover printed materials, lunch and snacks during the course. Payment details will be e-mailed to the candidates accepted to the course.

Course Location

The course will be held at the new BIMSB building on Humboldt-Universität’s Campus Nord in Berlin-Mitte.

Travel and Accomodation

The course fee does NOT cover accommodation or travel. However, the document linked below lists suggested accommodation options. The list includes some of the budget hotels/hostels as well.

Suggested accomodation options

Contact

Questions and suggestions should be sent to the following e-mail:

compgen@mdc-berlin.de

We look forward to hearing from you!

Organizers

Scientific Organization: Altuna Akalin