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Introduction to Peak Analysis workshop

Note: Some HBC workshops are taught in person and others are online via Zoom. Please take note for scheduling purposes!

Workshop dates and times:

TBA: 9:30 AM - 12 PM

TBA: 9:30 AM - 12 PM

TBA: 9:30 AM - 12 PM

NOTE: Workshop dates are subject to change. Instruction will be mostly learner-centric, requiring a time commitment between the workshop sessions!


Description:

This multi-day hands-on workshop will provide students with a suite of tools and a basic workflow of how to handle data generated from peak calling algorithms. Specifically, the workshop will focus on taking BED file formats (i.e. narrowPeak) and identifying what these regions represent. This workshop will introduce participants to:


Prerequisites:

This is one of our advanced workshops, and requires registrants to have attended the following Basic workshop offered by our training team in the last 6-8 months:

There is an expectation of participants to have some/all of the following programming knowledge:

I am fluent in R but have not attended the HBC prerequisite workshop, can I still register?

Yes, please register and provide your R/programming exerience on the form, and we’ll get back to you.


Who should attend?

Eligible* Harvard researchers who want to learn:


Cost:

There is a non-refundable and non-transferable $65 registration fee for this advanced workshop.

We will be accepting 25 participants on a first-come, first-served basis:

NOTE: You will not have a reserved seat for this workshop until you pay the registration fee. Please make sure you pay within the time stated in that email, else you will lose your spot to someone on the waitlist.

*NOTE: HMS Graduate Students may receive waivers on registration fees. Please register and we’ll followup with you.


Registration:

Please make sure you take the following into account when signing up for the workshop:

  1. Mandatory attendance for all three classes.
  2. 2-3 hours of reading and exercises from selected lessons before each workshop sessions.
  3. Active participation during discussion sessions.
(Registration opens 2 - 3 weeks before the start of advanced workshops.)

Eligibility requirements:

*To be eligible to attend this workshop you should fulfill at least one of the following criteria:

If you are unsure of your eligibility, please register anyway and we will get back to you.

NOTE: We do not record our training sessions.


Questions?

Please email us at hbctraining@hsph.harvard.edu with any questions.