Introduction to the command line for Bioinformatics

  • Sheffield - 27th November 2024
  • 13:00 - 16:00pm
  • Bartolome House, Seminar Room EG03

University of Sheffield staff / students are recommended to book via myDevelopment

Otherwise, please use this link to register for the course. There are options for attending online and in-person.

Overview

This course offers an introduction to working with Linux for Bioinformatics. We will describe the Linux environment so that participants can start to utilize command-line tools and feel comfortable using a text-based way of interacting with a computer. We give example of processing data arising from Next-Generation Sequencing experiments, in particular an RNA-seq experiment.

Who should attend this course?

Those wanting to use the command-line to perform data analysis; particularly those with next-generation sequencing data such as RNA-Seq

Overview

This course offers an introduction to working with Linux for Bioinformatics. We will describe the Linux environment so that participants can start to utilize command-line tools and feel comfortable using a text-based way of interacting with a computer. We give example of processing data arising from Next-Generation Sequencing experiments, in particular an RNA-seq experiment.

Who should attend this course?

Those wanting to use the command-line to perform data analysis; particularly those with next-generation sequencing data such as RNA-Seq

Objectives:- After this course you should be able to:

  • Run Bioinformatics programs from the command-line
  • Locate and download genome references from resources such as Ensembl
  • Perform QC on a set of sequencing reads
  • Use salmon to produce gene quantifications

Aims:- During this course you will learn about:

  • Quality assessment of NGS data
  • A basic workflow for processing RNA-seq data
  • Workflow management systems; such as nextflow

Prerequisites

  • No prior programming experience is required

Software

  • No software is required. You will be given access to an AWS machine on the day

Instructors

  • Dr. Mark Dunning, Bioinformatics Core Director
  • Dr. Akshay Bhat, Bioinformatics Core Analyst

For queries relating to collaborating with the Bioinformatics Core team on projects: bioinformatics-core@sheffield.ac.uk

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Requests for a Bioinformatics support clinic can be made via the Research Software Engineering (RSE) code clinic system. This is monitored by Bioinformatics Core staff, so we will ensure the appropriate expertise (which may involve individuals from multiple teams) will be available to help you

Queries regarding sequencing and library preparation provision at The University of Sheffield should be directed to the Multi-omics facility in SITraN or the Genomics Laboratory in Biosciences.