National course. The course is open for current and potential facility users such as PhD students, postdocs, group leaders and core facility staff in need of bioinformatic skills within all Swedish universities.
This course is supported by SciLifeLab and run by the SciLifeLab National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden (NBIS)
2020-09-23 update:
Due to the COVID-19 situation this course will be held online
Please contact edu.intro-ngs@nbis.se for general questions and edu.intro-ngs@nbis.se for course specific questions.
Important dates
Application CLOSED
Confirmation to accepted students: September 25, 2020
Responsible teachers: Malin Larsson, Martin Dahlö, Roy Francs
Course fee
No course fee will be invoiced for online courses. However, if you accept a position at the course and do not participate (no-show) you will be invoiced 2000 SEK.
*Please note that NBIS cannot invoice individuals
Course content
This intense one week course provides an introduction to the analysis of next generation sequencing data. Lectures on the theory of concepts will be paired with practical computational exercises in the Linux environment. The practical exercises will focus on data from the Illumina platform, but we will discuss other sequencing platforms and the advantages and challenges to using their data during the lectures.
After this course you should be able to:
Entry requirements
A background in genetics, cell biology, biomedicine, biochemistry, bioinformatics or comparable is desirable. To get the maximum benefit from the course we would like you to
You need to bring your own laptop for the practical computational exercises.
Selection criteria include correct entry requirements, motivation to attend the course as well as gender and geographical balance.
Link to application
Application CLOSED
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