Dear all, We have still some places left on our 1-day Linux for Genomics workshop on Friday 13 May 2016. Note that this workshop is specifically aimed at anyone *without any command-line experience*. Workshop description: Genomic studies produce vast amounts of data, usually in the form of very large text files. Linux is particularly suited to working with such files, and is therefore arguably one of the most important tools in a bioinformatician’s toolkit. The Linux command line enables one to view, filter and manipulate large text files that are difficult or impossible to handle with applications like Word or Excel, write pipelines to perform certain tasks and run bioinformatics software for which no web interface is available. In this workshop we will provide a basic introduction to Linux, covering the most used commands, followed by a brief introduction to several popular command-line tools that were especially developed for genomics (e.g. samtools and bedtools). The workshop will be mostly hands-on. In the tutorials genomic data and file formats commonly used in genomics (e.g. BED, FASTA, FASTQ, GFF/GTF, SAM/BAM, VCF) will be used (and explained). *1-day Linux for Genomics* Date: Fri 13 May 2016 Price: £155 Registration: first come first serve Deadline: Fri 29 April 2016 noon Details: https://genomics.ed.ac.uk/linux-genomics Cheers, Bert -- Bert Overduin, PhD TRAINING AND OUTREACH BIOINFORMATICIAN Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk EDINBURGH GENOMICS The University of Edinburgh Ashworth Laboratories The King's Buildings Charlotte Auerbach Road Edinburgh EH9 3FL Scotland, United Kingdom tel. +44(0)1316507403 http://genomics.ed.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.