[BBC] [Gtpb] ARANGS12 - Bioinformatics Training Course anouncement

[Pedro Fernandes]

                           ANNOUNCEMENT

Here is a useful NGS analysis course suitable for a wide variety of  
researchers.
The requirements are minimal. Participants will understand usage of  
NGS data analysis tools and will know how to chain them into very  
handy analytical pipelines. Plenty of worked examples and exercises in  
4 days.

NOTE: The application deadline is quite short, our excuses. We are  
using an unforeseen window of availabilities. It does matter to apply  
quickly, as the course dates are in early September.

             BIOINFORMARICS HANDS-ON TRAINING COURSE

     ARANGS12 -  Automated and reproducible analysis of NGS data

with Rutger Vos (Naturalis, Leiden, NL) and Darin London (Duke  
University, USA)

   IMPORTANT DATES for ARANGS12
    Deadline for applications: August 27th 2012
    Notification of acceptance dates:
         EARLY: August 15th 2012
    (on special request, see Application)
         NORMAL: September 3rd 2012
    Course date: September 11th - September 14th 2012


Course Description

Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies for DNA have resulted in  
a yet a bigger deluge of data. Researchers are learning that analysing  
such data sets is becoming the bottleneck in their work. In many  
cases, several steps in these analyses are fairly generic (e.g.  
quality control filtering, alignment to reference sequences, typing)  
so that off-the-shelf pipelines can be applied. In other cases, novel  
research approaches require development of new analysis pipelines.  
Either way, all analysis steps should be repeatable and any changes  
made to the data (e.g. renaming, annotation, alignment) should be  
recorded so that the provenance of the results is clear and inferences  
are reproducible. In this brief workshop we will establish several  
best practices of reproducibility and provenance recording in the  
(comparative) analysis of data obtained by NGS. In doing so we will  
encounter the commonly used technologies that enable these best  
practices by working through use cases that illustrate the underlying  
principles.

Target audience
This course is aimed at researchers who've recently embarked on NGS  
projects and now, faced with large amounts of data, would like to  
learn how to automate generic analysis steps and develop new ones in a  
reproducible (and shareable) way. The course will be illustrated with  
examples from specific single-celled and multicellular taxa but the  
concepts are applicable to any species not explicitly referred to in  
the course. The ideal attendee is a scientist who is not afraid to get  
his/her hands dirty to acquire the computer-literacy skills for  
dealing with the informatics side of data analysis.

Futher details, including application instructions available at
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/ARANGS12

thank you for your interest

Pedro Fernandes


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Pedro Fernandes
GTPB Coordinator
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Apartado 14
2781-901 OEIRAS
Tel +351 21 4407912
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt


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