Advanced Bioinformatics Workshop

Renesh Bedre    less than 1 minute read

Title: Advanced Bioinformatics Workshop

Target Audience: Students and faculty involved in analyzing NGS data

Length: 6 hours a day (9 AM to 4 PM daily) for 4 days (Nov 20 to Nov 23, 2017)

Location: Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Description: The advanced Bioinformatics workshop intends to graduate students (PhD and MS), senior research scientist and faculty working on Bioinformatics data analysis, especially NGS. In this course, theory and practical training will be provided by currently available open source technologies in the NGS data analysis. This course assumes that participants will have basic computing knowledge. The complete course will be delivered in English.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn the principles of Bioinformatics and Next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis
  • handling big data and manage the databases
  • Derive the biological significance of analyzed data
  • Statistical analysis of NGS data

Prerequisites:

  • Must have knowledge of computers and its basic applications
  • Linux/Unix familiarity
  • Require to have a desktop/laptop with access to high-performance computer

Instructor: Renesh Bedre, Ph.D.

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