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 -- Pedro Fernandes GTPB Coordinator Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Apartado 14 2781-901 OEIRAS Tel +351 21 4407912 http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt _______________________________________________ Gtpb mailing list Gtpb@igc.gulbenkian.pt https://lists.igc.gulbenkian.pt/mailman/listinfo/gtpb