Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing Analysis Part I: Short-read Mapping and Visualization - Nov. 23

Date: Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016 
Location: Online ( Please register here.) 

Speaker: 
Phillip Richmond
PhD Student, Wasserman Lab, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics
BC Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia

Next generation DNA sequencing has emerged in the past 10 years as an invaluable tool for researchers in the biological sciences. Despite its usefulness, the high-throughput and data intensive nature of this technology has created a roadblock for many biologists who lack formal training in computer science and data analysis.

Luckily for researchers across Canada, UBC’s Advanced Research Computing (ARC) and WestGrid have teamed up to provide hands-on basic analysis workshops that lay the foundation of DNA sequencing analysis. Hosted on the Compute Canada national compute platform—freely available to academic researchers across Canada—the workshop series will lay the foundation for future data analysis projects. Workshops will be hosted in a virtual classroom format, making the content available to researchers across the country.

In the first part of this workshop series, we will be taking a short-read DNA sequencing dataset through genomic alignment and subsequent visualization, both critical steps in the majority of DNA sequencing projects. This workshop places an emphasis on data formats, interacting with the compute server, and using the popular open source bioinformatics tools: BWA, Samtools, and IGV.

For more information and to register, please visit the WestGrid website here.