Training Courses
All these courses are a mix of lectures and hands on sessions
and do not require any previous bioinfomatics knowledge,
unless specified.
1. Introductory courses, focusing on EBI resources, ranging
from an introductions to the EBI website and how to use the
general search functionality to access all data
(http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/course/introEBI-CambFeb2014), to
introductions to specific databases such as the repositories
storing next generations sequencing data
(http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/course/bioinformatics-workshop-archivesnext-generation-sequence-data-ebi-cambridge-uk), transcriptomics
data (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/course/bioinformaticstranscriptomics-data-and-tools-cambridge-uk), metabolomics data
(http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/course/bioinformatics-workshopmetabolomics-databases-and-tools-ebi-cambridge-uk), pathway data
(http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/course/Reactome-CambsJan2014),
sequence searching tools
(http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/course/SeqSearch-CambJan2014),
network analysis tools
(http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/course/Networks-CambsJan2014),
protein structures data (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/course/pdbeCambFeb2014) and protein-protein interactions
(http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/course/IntAct-CambsJan2014).
These are just few of the EBI resources related courses that
are on offer at CU. The next round of such introductions will
take place in October 2014. It will surely include a day on
Ensembl Genomes, which could surely be of interest to the
researchers in your department.
2. Basic programming courses, dedicated to R
(http://logic.sysbiol.cam.ac.uk/teaching/Rcourse/), Perl or
Python (http://pycam.github.io/). These will focus on how to use
these programming languages to solve biological problems.
3. Thematic courses, focusing on the analysis of a particular data
type, for example like the analysis of next-generation
sequencing data. Here are links to a couple of such courses that I
am still organizing at EBI this year and that I am planning to
move to CU next year
(https://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/course/RNA-2014 and
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/course/HTS2014). In 2014 we
will run several courses on the analysis of NGS data also at CU,
some introductory, some more advanced and focusing on RNAseq or ChIP-seq only. I am in the process of contacting all
speakers to shape the next round of such events. Compared to
the two examples here provided, they will be shorter (max 3
days) and possibly more focused. The courses currently
scheduled for 2014 are:
http://training.csx.cam.ac.uk/search?type=courses&query=GSL
S+Bioinformatics&_action_search=Search&_pastEvents=