Course Overview
The introduction to hands-on Bioconductor workshop is a virtual two-half-day training to provide an overview of leveraging open-source Bioconductor resources for research studies. There will be two courses offered by the BioConductor community: Introduction to Bioconductor Annotation Resources (Thursday, 29th April) Epidemiology for Bioinformaticians (Friday, 30th April 2021)
The introduction to hands-on Bioconductor workshop is a virtual two-half-day training to provide an overview of leveraging open-source Bioconductor resources for research studies. There will be two courses offered by the BioConductor community: Introduction to Bioconductor Annotation Resources (Thursday, 29th April) Epidemiology for Bioinformaticians (Friday, 30th April 2021)
Intended Audience
The course is designed for biomedical research graduate students (master, PhD), early-stage researchers, and bioinformaticians who would like to build their capacity in data analysis using Bioconductor resources and are familiar with R syntax and using RStudio.
The course is designed for biomedical research graduate students (master, PhD), early-stage researchers, and bioinformaticians who would like to build their capacity in data analysis using Bioconductor resources and are familiar with R syntax and using RStudio.
Keywords: Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, study design, causal inference, BioConductor packages
Skill level of training:
Beginner
Language: English
Credential awarded: Letter of completion/attendance
Type of training: Online
Venue of the course: Online (Zoom)
Dates for the course:
Course organisers: H3Africa, H3ABioNet, and the Bioconductor Community
Participation: The course is available to any participant who meets the requirements and is able to attend provided they have been selected via the selection process
Course Sponsors: H3ABioNet
Course objectives
The proposed courses will lay a foundation on how to efficiently use open-source Bioconductor resources for bioinformatics analysis.
Classroom applications
Registration for classrooms opens:
Thu, 01/01/1970
Registration for classrooms closes:
Thu, 01/01/1970
Notification date for successful classrooms:
Thu, 01/01/1970
Maximum number of participants that may be accepted per classroom will be
capped at
Participant applications
Registration for participants opens:
Thu, 01/01/1970
Registration for participants closes:
Thu, 01/01/1970
Participant registration link:
Syllabus and Tools
The course tools and packages relevant for this course will be hosted on Orchestra, an online platform for teaching and learning hands-on computational skills in self-contained and launchable workshop environments.
Prerequisites
Course limitations
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Training material availability
Training materials for this course are not currently available.
