Bioinformatics Training April 4 - May 8, 2017

Visiting scientist Dr. Naser A Feto from Vaal University of Technology, South Africa attended bioinformatics training at JCVI. JCVI instructors included Mr. Indresh Singh, Ms. Lauren Brinkac, Mr. Toby Clarke, Dr. Rembert Pieper. The visiting scientists were led through training and hands-on informatics exercises of following topics.

Training topics

Python/Biopython

Unix/Linux

Sequencing and data QC

Data submission (SRA, GenBank)

Informatics for Assembly, SNP, RNA-sequence analysis

Introduction to R-Programming

Comparative and Phylogenetic analysis (Pangenome, NASP, LOCUST, etc)

Tools for Pathway and Network Analysis of ‘OMICS Data

Molecular docking & protein 3-d visualization tools

Informatics for Proteomics

Bioinformatics for cancer genomics

Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) & SNPs

Analyses of demo data involving different tools

CLC Genomics Workbench