Bioinformatics for Biologists: Analysing and Interpreting Genomics Datasets

Bioinformatics for Biologists: Analysing and Interpreting Genomics Datasets
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Overview

Boost your career by gaining the skills to install and modify the elements of a bioinformatics workflow to suit your needs.

Table of content

Skills you will learn

What are the course deliverables?

Brief introduction to sequencing technologies and an overview of current sequencing outputs
Sequence quality control to ensure data accuracy and reliability
Bioinformatics workflows utilising tools such as Nextflow using nf-core pipelines
Mapping sequencing data to a reference genome for alignment and variant calling
Working with pipeline outputs in R to perform downstream analysis and visualisation.

More about this course

Bioinformatics is crucial in helping to understand large and complex sets of biological data.
On this three-week course, you'll develop your knowledge of bioinformatics and gain practical experience in scaling up analysis and working with large and complex datasets effectively.
With this knowledge, you'll have the skills to tackle real-world genomics research challenges, enhancing your career prospects in fields such as genomics medicine, bioinformatics, and data science.
This course builds on the foundation of our to help you enhance your genomic data analysis skills.
You'll start by gaining an introduction to sequencing technologies and current sequencing outputs.
Dive into the rich history of DNA sequencing and how it has evolved in the Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) era before gaining practical skills in mapping sequencing data to a reference genome.
Next, you'll unpack bioinformatics workflows as you learn how to use workflow management software such as Nextflow.
With this knowledge, you'll gain skills to adapt existing workflows to your specific needs and optimise your analysis processes.
Finally, you'll explore downstream analysis with the versatile R programming language. You'll learn how to work with pipeline outputs in R to conduct in-depth analysis and visualisation.
Guided by the experts at Wellcome Connecting Science and using hands-on exercises, you'll finish the course with both the knowledge and practical skills to effectively handle and analyse sequence datasets.