NGS for evolutionary biologists: from basic scripting to variant calling

ELIXIR Italy, in collaboration with the Institute of Genetics and Biophysics is organising training course on "NGS for evolutionary biologists: from basic scripting to variant calling".

This course will provide an introduction to next generation sequencing platforms, data analysis and tools for data quality control, including alignment to a reference sequence, data handling and visualisation, and variant calling and filtering (single nucleotide polymorphisms and structural variants). It will be deliver a mixture of lectures and hands-on sessions, including mini-projects to be completed by the participants. The topics covered include population structure and admixture, demographic changes and natural selection.

This course is aimed at PhD students and post-doctoral researchers who are applying, or will apply in the near future, high throughput sequencing technologies and the related bioinformatics tools in their research. Participants with limited UNIX/Linux and R/Bioconductor experience will be provided with basic understanding of the command-line operations and the foundations of the R programming language on the first day of the course.

More details and registration: http://bioinformaticstraining.pythonanywhere.com/course/5/

Priority will be given to candidates from ELIXIR-ITA institutions and other ELIXIR nodes. Should you have any question, do not hesitate to contact the ELIXIR-ITA training coordinator, Dr Allegra Via, at a.via@ibbe.cnr.it or elixir.ita.training@gmail.com.

Deadline for applications: 30 March 2016