BioSB RNA- seq data analysis course  (6^th edition)

Date: 26-28 September, 2016
Location: Leiden, the Netherlands
Course coordinators: Peter-Bram ‘t Hoen (LUMC), Jan Oosting (LUMC),  Celia van Gelder (BioSB, education@biosb.nl )
Course website: http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/rna-seq/  .  
Registration: http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/rna-seq/enrollment-rnaseq-2016/
More information: education@biosb.nl

Course description
The BioSB research school and partner LUMC are organizing a 3-day course on RNA-seq data analysis from September 26-28, 2016. This is an advanced course for people with experience in NGS. The course will consist of seminars and hands-on command line, Galaxy and R practicals and will cover the analysis pipelines for differential transcript expression and variant calling. Examples will be taken from human and mouse studies. The course does not cover prokaryotic RNA profiling nor plant- and metagenomics aspects.

Course topics
RNA-seq experimental approaches
Alignment and de novo assembly
Statistics for differential gene expression
eQTL analysis and allele specific expression
Variant calling and RNA editing
Small RNA profiling
Software for RNA-seq data analysis

Programme
The programme can be found here: http://biosb.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/RNAseq_program_2016_v4.pdf

Target audience
Participants for the RNA-seq course should preferably have participated in the general NGS course or otherwise have demonstrated hands-on experience with NGS data analysis. The course is aimed at PhD students and post-docs, but scientific programmers and data analysts with a background in biology and bioinformatics may also attend. The practicals are mostly in R. We require that participants have at least basic knowledge of R and experience in running R scripts. Registrations will be handled on a first-come-first-served basis but experience and motivation will be reviewed. Seats have been reserved for participants in the FP7-funded projects RD-Connect, Neuromics, Eurenomics  and BBMRI-NL.

BioSB Course Programme
This course is part of the Course Portfolio of BioSB, the Netherlands Bioinformatics and Systems Biology research school, which offers  training and education for in bioinformatics and systems biology.
More information about BioSB can be found at www.biosb.nl.

More information
For more information about the course you can contact Celia van Gelder at education@biosb.nl.  

Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder

Programme Manager Learning DTL/ELIXIR-NL Training
Education Manager BioSB

tel. +31613375327

e-mail: celia.van.gelder@dtls.nl

websites:  www.dtls.nl, www.biosb.nl

skype: celia.van.gelder

Postal address:

DTL
PO Box 19245
3501 DE Utrecht