IMPORTANT DATES for this Course:

Deadline for applications: 30/03/2016
Latest notification of acceptance: 10/04/2016
Course date: 2-6/05/2016
 
Venue: Biblioteca, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, via P. Castellino 111, 80131 Naples, Italy  

 
A maximum of 20 candidates will be selected based on their research profile. Notifications of acceptance will be sent shortly after the closing date of registration.

Priority will be given to candidates from ELIXIR-ITA institutions and other ELIXIR nodes.  
Should you have any question, do not hesitate to contact the ELIXIR-ITA training coordinator, Dr Allegra Via, at a.via@ibbe.cnr.it or elixir.ita.training@gmail.com.
 

Full details, including the course programme and the application form, at: http://bioinformaticstraining.pythonanywhere.com/course/5/

Instructors:
Chiara Batini (University of Leicester, UK)
Vincenza Colonna (CNR, Napoli, IT)
Allegra Via (CNR, Bari, IT)
 

 
Course description
This course will provide an introduction to next generation sequencing platforms, data analysis and tools for data quality control, including alignment to a reference sequence, data handling and visualisation, and variant calling and filtering (single nucleotide polymorphisms and structural variants). The course will be delivered using a mixture of lectures and computer based hands-on practical sessions, including mini-projects to be completed by the participants using the knowledge gained at the course. Projects will cover the general topics of population structure and admixture, demographic changes and natural selection.
This course is aimed at PhD students and post-doctoral researchers who are applying, or will apply in the near future, high throughput sequencing technologies and the related bioinformatics tools in their research.
Participants with limited UNIX/Linux and R/Bioconductor experience will be provided with basic understanding of the command-line operations and the foundations of the R programming language on the first day of the course.  
 

Thank you for your interest,

 
The Organisers

Chiara Batini (University of Leicester, UK)
Vincenza Colonna (CNR, Napoli, IT)
Allegra Via (CNR, Bari, IT)