Introduction to Bioinformatics

May 18, 2016 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
MGH Simches Research Building, Room 3.110, 185 Cambridge Street

Sponsored by the Division of Clinical Research, Department of Molecular Biology, MGH and the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at Harvard

Dates: May 18, 25, June 2, 9 and 16th

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This introductory mini-course is intended for experimentalists who would like to get oriented in basic Bioinformatics concepts and tools. It is intended as a primer that would allow you to better understand general ideas and approaches and to start asking the right questions about your data. If you want to drill very deeply into a specific question or to get hands-on experience, this probably isn't a course for you.

However, we are open to organizing more in-depth courses and workshops in the future. This course will consist of five seminars with basic introduction to specific topics.

Course Outline:
Session 1: Basic Statistics & Introduction to R
Session 2: Protein/gene sequence analysis and protein structure prediction
Session 3: Microarray expression analysis and gene set enrichment analysis
Session 4: Next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis -- part 1
Session 5: Next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis -- part 2

You can download R here: www.r-project.org. R is a very powerful statistical package that is also free. If using a Mac and having some troubles with R - please reference https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/RMacOSX-FAQ.html

Registration is required: Please contact Kelsey Gay at @email or Ruslan Sadreyev at @email with any questions. 

Session Info 

  • May 18, 2016 (01:00 PM - 02:30 PM) - Basic statistics and introduction to R
  • May 25, 2016 (01:30 PM - 03:00 PM) - Protein/gene sequence analysis and protein structure prediction
  • June 02, 2016 (01:00 PM - 03:00 PM) - Microarray expression analysis and gene set enrichment analysis: 
  • June 09, 2016 (01:30 PM - 03:00 PM) - Next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis -- part 1 
  • June 16, 2016 (01:30 PM - 03:30 PM) - Next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis -- part 2