ELIXIR-ITA, in collaboration with CINECA and Sapienza Università di Roma is pleased to inform you that the applications for the upcoming training course on NGS for evolutionary biologists: from basic scripting to variant calling are now open.
IMPORTANT DATES for this Course:
Deadline for applications: 23/10/2015
Latest notification of acceptance: 31/10/2015
Course date: 23-27/11/2015
Venue: CINECA Auditorium, via dei Tizii 2/C, Rome
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 member institutions (see the list at the bottom) and ELIXIR nodes.
Should you have any question, do not hesitate to contact the ELIXIR-ITA training coordinator, Dr Allegra Via, atallegra.via@uniroma1.it or elixir.ita.training@gmail.com.
Full details at: http://
Instructors:
Chiara Batini (University of Leicester, UK)
Tiziana Castrignanò (CINECA, Rome, IT)
Giovanni Chillemi (CINECA, Rome, IT)
Vincenza Colonna (CNR, Napoli, IT)
Pille Hallast (University of Tartu, ES)
Allegra Via (Sapienza Università di Roma, 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. These 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.
