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Workshop Schedule

Pre-requisite for this workshop: The Basic Data Skills Introduction to the command-line interface workshop or a working knowledge of the command line and cluster computing.

Pre-reading

Day 1

Time Topic Instructor
09:30 - 09:45 Workshop Introduction Meeta
09:45 - 10:25 Working in an HPC environment - Review Emma
10:25 - 11:05 Project Organization (using Data Management best practices) Meeta
11:05 - 11:45 Quality Control of Sequence Data: Running FASTQC Emma
11:45 - 12:00 Overview of self-learning materials and homework submission Meeta

Before the next class:

  1. Please study the contents and work through all the code within the following lessons:
  1. Complete the exercises:
    • Each lesson above contain exercises; please go through each of them.
    • Add your answers to the questions to Google forms the day before the next class.

Questions?


Day 2

Time Topic Instructor
09:30 - 10:30 Self-learning lessons review All
10:30 - 11:10 Expression quantification: Theory and Tools Meeta
11:10 - 11:50 Quantifying expression using alignment-free methods (Salmon) Emma
11:50 - 12:00 Review of workflow Emma

Before the next class:

  1. Please study the contents and work through all the code within the following lessons:
  1. Complete the exercises:
    • Each lesson above contain exercises; please go through each of them.
    • Add your answers to the questions to Google forms the day before the next class.

Questions?


Day 3

Time Topic Instructor
09:30 - 10:10 Self-learning lessons review All
10:10 - 11:10 Automating the RNA-seq workflow Will
11:10 - 11:45 Troubleshooting RNA-seq Data Analysis Emma
11:45 - 12:00 Wrap up Will


Resources

Building on this workshop


These materials have been developed by members of the teaching team at the Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core (HBC). These are open access materials distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.