ARANGS13

Automated and reproducible analysis of NGS data

Course Timetable (provisional)
Automated and reproducible analysis of NGS data
Mon, Oct 21st
Day #1
09:30 - 10:30 Course methodology. Self-introductions.
Automated and reproducible analysis of NGS data: Introductory lecture
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 NGS data, file formats (hands-on, looking at FASTQ and SAM files)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 The UNIX command line
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Running analysis steps on the command line: FASTQ quality control
Tue, Oct 22nd
Day #2
09:30 - 10:30 Wrap-up session about Day 1
Command line scripting (shell) to reproduce reference alignment with BWA and calculation of consensus sequences with SamTools.
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Programming toolkits (i.e. scripting with objects) to develop tailor-made analyses, e.g. parameterized filtering of FASTQ, using the SamTools API to analyze DNA fragmentation.
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 How to organize genomics projects (i.e. data and scripts) in a standard way that simplifies collaboration.
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Tracking project versions using distributed version control systems
Wed, Oct 23rd
Day #3
09:30 - 10:30 Wrap-up session about Day 2
Downstream analysis: handling annotated genomes
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 The GFF3 file format, about coordinate systems
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Linking annotations with sequences
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Linking sequences with annotations
Thu, Oct 24th
Day #4
09:30 - 10:30 Wrap-up session about Day 3
Visual environments for workflows (galaxy)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Data sharing, reproducibility, open data
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Running existing workflows in Galaxy
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Final wrap-up session
Development of a Galaxy tool.
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Last updated:   Oct 1st 2013