Course Overview
The H3Africa initiative is aimed at studying the genomic and environmental determinants of disease in Africa. The goals of H3Africa are to enhance the necessary genomic expertise among African scientists and to encourage collaborations between African investigators by supporting infrastructure development and research projects. H3ABioNet aims to create a sustainable African Bioinformatics Network to support and promote the development of bioinformatics capacity within Africa, by training the next generation of students in bioinformatics. To achieve this vision, H3ABioNet will be hosting a five week training workshop in bioinformatics aimed at students registered for a postgraduate academic degree in bioinformatics or a related discipline from the H3ABioNet Nodes and H3Africa projects from the 21st of April to the 26th of May 2014 at the Covenant University Bioinformatics Research (CUBRe) unit in Ota, Nigeria.

Intended Audience
The H3ABioNet Postgraduate workshop is aimed at developing a core set of specialised skills amongst registered postgraduate students within H3ABioNet and H3Africa projects to provide them with practical training in a variety of introductory bioinformatics topics to complement their ongoing research and education and strengthen the bioinformatics capacity within their Node/group.

Keywords: Biological data resources, Data handling, Sequence analysis, Genomics

Skill level of training: Beginner

Language: English

Credential awarded: No credential awarded

Type of training: Face-to-face

Venue of the course: Covenant University Bioinformatics Research (CUBRe) unit in Ota, Nigeria

Dates for the course: 21st of April to the 26th of May 2014

Course organisers: H3ABioNet and Covenant University Bioinformatics Research (CUBRe)

Participation: Registered postgraduate students within H3ABioNet and H3Africa projects

Course Sponsors: H3ABioNet Local Classrooms

Course objectives

The H3ABioNet 2014 Postgraduate workshop is aimed at providing post graduate students registered for an academic degree and are working on research projects with a significant component of bioinformatics with the necessary grounding in core bioinformatics topics. The H3ABioNet 2014 Postgraduate workshop aims to equip these individuals with the necessary skills to continue their ongoing bioinformatics education, further learn on topics that are of interest to them and apply the skills learnt to their academic research projects.

Syllabus and Tools

Name	Topic taught	Period Topic is Taught	Dates for Topic being taught
Dr Oyelade and Mrs Itunu Isewon	Introduction to linux and Python programing	Week 1	21st April to 25th April
Shaun Aron	Introduction to bioinformatics resources, Sequence alignment, and proteomics resources	Week 2	28th April to 2nd May
Dr. Jean-Baka Domelevo Entfellner	Introduction to Biostatistics	Week 3	5th May to 9th May
Dr. Takafumi Yamaguchi and Dr. Lawrence Heisler	NGS	Week 4	12th May to 16th May
Dr. Segun Fatumo	GWAS	Week 4	16th May, 19th May
Dr. Kais Ghedira and Dr. Amel Ghoulia	Databases, mining and analysis workflows / pipelines	Week 5	19th May to 23rd May
Dr Oyelade and Miss Itunu Ewejobi	Python programming for 3 hours every day	Throughout the workshop	28th April to 24th May

Prerequisites

Successful applicants would be required to complete some prerequisites which may include on-line courses prior to the commencement of the H3ABioNet 2014 Postgraduate workshop. Participants would be notified of these requirements upon admission.

Training material availability

Training materials for this course are available as a single downloadable archive here: https://doi.org/10.25375/uct.19105511. Should you re-use any of these materials, please ensure that both the author/s of the material AND H3ABioNet are clearly credited.