Dear all, For your information, please find below our offering of training courses for September 2016. Basic statistics in R This training gives an introduction to the use of the statistical software language R. This introduction is aimed at beginners. The training covers data handling, graphics, mathematical functions and some basic statistical techniques. Requirements Understanding of basic statistical concepts is required, such as data types, normal distribution, descriptive statistics, tests for comparing groups... If you want to follow the metagenomics training or the RNA-Seq training and you have no experience in R, you are strongly encouraged to follow this introduction. Date: 2 and 9 September Location: Park Inn, Leuven Trainer: Janick Mathys More information and registration: http://www.vib.be/en/training/research-training/courses/Pages/default.aspx?V... Mass spectrometry data processing In this training we start by reviewing the types of mass spectrometers, and what the properties of their output data are. Out of our understanding of the data, we learn to extract meaningful interpretations. Requirements: basic understanding of mass spectrometry as applied to peptides and proteins. Date: 12 and 13 September Location: BioAccelerator, Gent Trainer: Lennart Martens More information and registration: http://www.vib.be/en/training/research-training/courses/Pages/default.aspx?V...   Metagenomics This training will start with the presentation of a 16S pipeline in a Linux environment, using a minimal amount of Linux commands. This will enable the preprocessing of the data going from raw reads to taxonomic tables and phylogenetic trees. The second part of the training will give an overview of numerical ecology and takes part in R. Requirements: The training is intended for people who have some experience with R. If you have no experience with R you can attend the R introduction training. Linux usage will be part of the course, but very basic Linux knowledge is sufficient for this course. Date: 16 September Location: Park Inn, Leuven Trainer: Falk Hildebrand More information and registration: http://www.vib.be/en/training/research-training/courses/Pages/default.aspx?V... Linux for bioinformatics This hands-on training will show you how to effectively use Linux,, be it on the server of your department, or on your own computer (even if you're already running Windows or Mac OS). Date: 23 and 26 September Location: Park Inn, Leuven Trainer: Christof De Bo More information and registration: http://www.vib.be/en/training/research-training/courses/Pages/default.aspx?V... Best regards, Alex Alexander Botzki Manager BITS | Training Coordinator ELIXIR-BE VIB - BITS, Rijvisschestraat 126, 9052 GENT | +32 9 248 16 00 www.bits.vib.be | @bitsatvib | https://corefacilities.vib.be