RNA-seq data analysis course (3th edition) Date: October 30- Nov 1, 2013 Course coordinators: Peter-Bram ‘t Hoen, Marieke Simonis Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Website: http://www.nbic.nl/education/course-overview/pages3/1/coursedetails/advanced... Registration: http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/enrolment/ Course Description This is an expert course for people with experience in NGS. The course will consist of seminars and hands-on command line, Galaxy and R practicals and will focus on data preprocessing, quality control, alignment, visualization and statistics for differential transcript expression. 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 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. 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 project RD-Connect<http://www.rd-connect.eu/> and Marie Curie European Training Network TranCYST<http://www.trancyst.eu/>. NBIC PhD School The Life Sciences Track of the NBIC PhD School (http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/nbic-phd-school-course-portfoli...) currently offers six bioinformatics courses focussing on application and data-analysis of Next-generation sequencing (NGS). All NBIC NGS courses are co-developed and co-organised by experts in the field and in close collaboration with leading research groups throughout the Netherlands. All NBIC courses are taught in English and are open to PhD students and researchers worldwide. More information For more information about the course you can contact Celia van Gelder (NBIC Education) at celia.van.gelder@nbic.nl<mailto:celia.van.gelder@nbic.nl>. -- Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder Coordinator Education CMBI Projectleader Education NBIC tel. +31-(0)24-3666120 e-mail: C.vanGelder@umcn.nl<mailto:C.vanGelder@umcn.nl> websites: www.cmbi.ru.nl<http://www.cmbi.ru.nl>, www.nbic.nl<http://www.nbic.nl> Postal address: CMBI 260 Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre /NCMLS PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands Het UMC St Radboud staat geregistreerd bij de Kamer van Koophandel in het handelsregister onder nummer 41055629. The Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre is listed in the Commercial Register of the Chamber of Commerce under file number 41055629.