Glasgow Bioinformatics Summer School 2025

Update on 2025 course - One week with an extra single cell day (Saturday)

 

 

 

When:

Week 1 (Linux, R, Mapping, SNP's, RNA-Seq, single-cell RNA-Seq basics)

18-22  of August 2025

Single Cell day (Pipelines in scRNA-Seq, Introduction to spatial biology)

Saturday 23/08/2025

Applications will open in March 2025

Application Deadline: 01/07/2025

Topics:

First week (Bioinformatics of next-generation sequencing):

  •      Basics of Linux
  •      Introduction to R
  •      Introduction to next-generation sequencing
  •      Data visualization
  •      SNP analysis
  •      Transcriptomics: bulk RNA-Seq and single-cell RNA-Seq
  •      De novo assembly (alternative track to scRNA-Seq)
  •      Databases
  •      Data processing

Single cell day (advanced single cell)*

  •      Applied theory of scRNA-seq analysis methods
  •      Integration of scRNA
  •      Spatial transcriptomic
  •      Tips and tricks - material to other application like BCR, pseudo time, cell-cell interation

Exepected cost if inflation stays low

One week: £800 for academics / £1300 commercial

One week + Saturday: £ 900 for academics / £1450 commercial

How to apply: Places are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis upon receipt of the fee. Please contact sii-informatics@glasgow.ac.uk for the booking.

Cancellation Policy: Cancellations more than 30 days before the start date will incur a 30% cancellation fee. Cancellations less than 30 days before the start date cannot be refunded.

Participants are encouraged to attend the full week, daily, core hours 9:00-18:00h. We have 2 evening events.

* IMPORTANT:

The primary target audience is PhD students and postdocs from the life sciences.

 

Learning outcomes

Full description

About the organisers

COVID-19 mitigation

Previous courses