Sunday, March 18, 2018

“R for Bioinformatics” Workshop Series – USC Libraries Bioinformatics

The USC Libraries Bioinformatics Service is pleased to present the “R for Bioinformatics” workshop series. Knowing how to use R is a valuable skillset, as numerous cutting-edge tools for various genomic data analysis are written in R.  This workshop series is aimed at training researchers in the varied applications of R for bioinformatics.

The first two hands-on workshops of this series are designed for those with no or little experiences in R but want to achieve basic competency in R usage. 

Workshop 1—R and Bioinformatics (4 hr)
Introduction to R and learning R for bioinformatics
Using RStudio – an integrated development environment for R
The general context and concepts of R programming
Commonly used functions for manipulating bioinformatics data

Workshop 2—Bioconductor and EdgeR (4 hr)  
More commonly used functions for manipulating and visualizing bioinformatics data
Introduction to bioinformatics package repositories: CRAN and Bioconductor
Bioinformatics R Packages Case Study 1 - Using EdgeR for Differential Expression analysis.

Before you sign up:
1. Participants are required to attend BOTH workshops.
2. As seating is limited to 10 participants per workshop session, registration is mandatory and must be fulfilled.
3. Participants are required to bring their own laptops.
4. Additional sessions of both workshops may be offered in near future—register to get on the waiting list.

University Park Campus
Workshop 1:      10am to 2pm, Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
Learning Center, Wilson Dental Library (DEN21) 
Workshop 2:      10am to 2pm, Friday, April 6th, 2018
Learning Center, Wilson Dental Library (DEN21)

Health Science Campus
Workshop 1:      10am to 2pm, Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018  
                                East Conference Room (Basement Level), Norris Medical Library
Workshop 2:      10am to 2pm, Tuesday, April 10th, 2018
Computer Classroom (2nd Level), Norris Medical Library

Lunch will be provided at all sessions.  Sign up with the link below: 
https://tinyurl.com/y8cvjj5p

This workshop is part of the ongoing Bioinformatics Lunch Series, funded by USC Libraries Dean’s Challenge Grant.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Eddie Loh, Yibu Chen, and Meng Li
USC Libraries Bioinformatics Service
nmlbio@usc.edu
https://nml.usc.edu/bioinformatics 

No comments: