ELIXIR TtR course: Basic genomics using advanced analysis tools

ELIXIR TtR course: Basic genomics using advanced analysis tools

Genomic Data Science with Galaxy

Dec 20-21, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Galaxy is an open source, web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research. The Galaxy Platform provides user friendly software for producing reproducible genomic pipelines for data analysis. This workshop will provide a 2 day introductory session to Galaxy software system.

The course will be in English.

Registration:

• register here
• the limit of participants is 20
• the course is free of charge

This course will focus on introducing the Galaxy user interface and how it can be used for basic genomic analyses. Sessions will be intensive and hands-on, and taught by experienced instructors from the Galaxy Community. We will cover the basic features of Galaxy, including where to find tools, how to import and use your data, and an introduction to workflows. This session is recommended for anyone who has not used, or only rarely uses Galaxy.

Program topics:

• Quick introduction to Galaxy GUI
• From peaks to genes
  
• Reference-based RNA-seq - Quality control
• Reference-based RNA-Seq - Sequencing
  

Lecturers will be Christophe Antoniewski and Olivier Inizan from ELIXIR France.

Course is organised by ELIXIR Slovenia in collaboration with ELIXIR France.

ELIXIR is an European ESFRI priority research infrastructure for bioinformatics that provides databases, (software) tools, services and training (including training materials) for information, cloud storage and supercomputers in the area of life sciences. It coordinates, develops, integrates and sustains life science (bioinformatics) resources across Europe.

Prerequisites:

• Wi-Fi enabled laptop with a modern web browser. Latest versions of Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera will work best.