An Introduction to Omics

Dates

7 - 11 October 2024

Times

Day 1: 0930-1200

Day 2: 0930-1500

Day 3: 0930-1200

Day 4: 0930-1430

Day 5: 0930-1200

Venue

Course will be held via Zoom and Moodle

Speakers

Richard Burchmore, Gavin Blackburn, Ronan Daly, David McGuinness

Description

A course held over 5 days, aimed at familiarising participants with the basis and application of various omics disciplines: genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics, and bioinformatics. Each of the omics disciplines will be covered by a lecture and a practical bioinformatics session. By the end of the course users should understand, for each omics level: the basis of the discipline, the instrumentation used to generate high-throughput biological data, key applications, and how to visualise the resulting data using commonly used software packages. Participants will also be aware of how different large-scale data sets can be integrated in order to obtain better biological inference, and appreciate the nature of other modern challenges in bioinformatics.

Course fee

£340

Cancellation policy

A refund will be issued if a booking is cancelled more than one week prior to the workshop.

Target group

Research students and staff who wish to deepen their understanding of high throughput data generation and analysis.

Local Organiser

Rachael Munro, MVLS Shared Research Facilities

Registration and enquiries

Please provide a budget centre or PO number for the course fee and state which course you would like to register for.

Book a Course

Bioinformatics for Biologists

What is the format, when does it run?

The programme is self paced - you watch lectures in your own time and can begin tutorials on your own. However, the tutorials are supported every week via zoom drop-in clinics. At these, all day, weekly clinics there will be a team of demonstrators and bioinformaticians, who will answer any questions and support you with the tutorials. These run every Friday, 9:30am - 12:30pm & 1:30pm - 4:30pm on Zoom. You can use this in one of two ways:

  • Structured: Aim to complete two teaching sessions a week by setting Fridays aside. Come to the clinic on a Friday and complete your first session in the morning and the second in the afternoon, whilst on the zoom. This way, if you get stuck we are immediately there to help.
  • Unstructured: Work at your own pace throughout the week, and only come to drop-in clinic if you have specific questions or are stuck.

Description

Bioinformatics for Biologists is aimed at wet-lab biologists who have little or no previous experience of R or omics. It is 100% entry level - for beginners. It is highly practical and aims to equip wet-lab scientists with the skills and confidence to perform their own bioinformatic data analysis, for any dataset. The course is comprehensive, yet gently paced.  The full programme is broken down into five courses. By registering you automatically get access to all five courses, via a central Moodle site. Each course is roughly 1 week in length, and includes lectures, lecture recordings, easy to follow workbooks and cheat code.

  • Omic data analysis and visualisation using R
  • Further omics, statistics and clinical data in R
  • Single cell and spatial bioinformatics
  • Essential command line bioinformatics and genomics
  • Metagenomics

Course fee

£695

Target Group

Research students and staff who wish to deepen their understanding of high throughput data generation and analysis.

Local Organiser

John Cole, MVLS Shared Reseach Facilities

Registration and enquiries

Please register here: https://forms.office.com/r/yu0jhVi426