Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Bioinformatics for Biologists: Analysing and Interpreting Genomics Datasets
The course covered Next Generation Sequencing and its significance in genomics, the installation of widely-used bioinformatics tools, the use of different file formats, and Linux commands for sequence quality control, mapping, and variant calling. The analysis was also performed using the workflow management system Nextflow, and applied to viralrecon, an existing bioinformatics pipeline. Downstream analysis included RStudio data visualization of variants obtained from genomic data sample.
3 weeks, 6 hours per week
Dr Treasa Creavin
Head of Scientific Meetings and Digital Learning
Wellcome Connecting Science
Dr Fatma Guerfali
Researcher
Institut Pasteur de Tunis
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Use software managers to install and run reproducible bioinformatics tools
- Handle and analyse sequence datasets through hands-on exercises
- Analyse quality control metrics for sequencing data
- Modify existing workflows to suit specific task requirements and optimise analysis processes
- Interrogate and interpret the results obtained from running bioinformatics pipelines
- Perform downstream analyses of pipeline outputs using R, enabling data visualisation and further exploration
Syllabus
- Brief introduction to sequencing technologies and an overview of current sequencing outputs
- Sequence quality control to ensure data accuracy and reliability
- Bioinformatics workflows utilising tools such as Nextflow using nf-core pipelines
- Mapping sequencing data to a reference genome for alignment and variant calling
- Working with pipeline outputs in R to perform downstream analysis and visualisation.
Issued on 4th November 2023
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