Past Workshops

By Brandon Le September 7, 2021

A listing of past workshops held by the Bioinformatics Core

Date Time Location Instructor Affiliation Description Material
Oct. 12, 2017 9:00 AM - 10:30AM University Laboratory Building Neerja Katiyar UCR Module 1: (Overview and pre-processing of NGS data) Introduction to Sequencing technologies - Sanger, Illumina, PacBio Demultiplexing raw data Understanding quality scores of FASTQ files Quality control (FASTQC) How to check for contamination in your data? Slides
Oct. 12, 2017 10:30 AM - 12:30PM University Laboratory Building Neerja Katiyar UCR Module 2: (Hands-on training for pre-processing NGS data) Introduction to basic linux commands and cluster (module load feature etc.) Download sample datasets (FASTQ files, FASTA) Run FASTQC Remove adapters (cutadapt, Trim Galore, FASTX toolkit) Check for contamination (Align against nr database using BLAST) Slides
Sept 22, 2017 9:00 AM- 12:00 PM University Laboratory Building Neerja Katiyar UCR Modern R graphics with ggplot2 - Histograms, barplots, Heatmaps, qplots, Introduction to Shiny apps. Manual
Sept 8, 2017 9:00 AM- 12:00 PM University Laboratory Building Neerja Katiyar UCR Programming with R - Rstudio environment, Loops, graphics, Exercises. Manual
August 4, 2017 10:00 - 12:00pm University Laboratory Building Room 104 Neerja Katiyar UCR Introduction to R Description - (1) Introduction to BigData (2) Rstudio environment (3) Data types, subsetting and filtering (4) Reading and writing a file in R (5) R graphics Slides
June 23, 2017 9:00 - 12:00pm University Laboratory Building Room 104 Neerja Katiyar UCR Introduction to R Description - (1) R basics (2) Working with Rstudio environment (3) R graphics (4) Introduction to Bioconductor (5) Q & A (6) Discussion (Future workshop suggestions)