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Genome Wide Association Studies, Quality Control and Family based analysis

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Rehab Ahmed -

The post-genomic era has been characterized by the rapid advance of genotyping technology resulting in a wealth of new, high-quality data that may hold promise for the further elucidation of genetic factors underlying complex disease. Without the proper tools and methods, the ultimate utility of such rich data may be limited in scope as the field…
Six weeks to Genomic Awareness

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Olivia Matshabane -

Who Should View This Training
The course is designed to be accessible to a broad audience of practitioners across all sectors of the public health and related workforce including public health nurses, health educators, and others.
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
Recognize current genetics…
PLINK v1.90

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Busisiwe Mlotshwa -

The focus of PLINK is purely on analysis of genotype/phenotype data. using PLINK, researchers can read data in a variety of formats, recode and reorder files, merge two or more files, extract subsets (SNPs or individuals), flip strand of SNPs and compress data in a binary file format. PLINK also enables researchers to perform summary statistics…
EMBO Practical Course on Analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing Data

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Busisiwe Mlotshwa -

Familiarity with the technology and biological use cases of high throughput sequencing is required, as is some experience with R/Bioconductor. The lectures give insight into how biological knowledge can be generated from RNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq experiments and illustrate different ways of analysing such data. Practicals consist of computer exercises…
eBiomics: Good practices and specific methods for using bioinformatics resources

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Busisiwe Mlotshwa -

eBiomics is composed of several interconnected sections that can be accessed through different interactive activities. The 5 main sections of the website are: Resources ( a catalogue of selected databases and data analysis software that are briefly described and illustrated with examples); Conceptual flowcharts (a collection of clickable images…
EBI: Next Generation Sequencing Practical Course

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Busisiwe Mlotshwa -

This course is designed to impart the following objectives: understanding of some principles behind NGS; knowledge of the challenges created by NGS; knowledge of how to submit and retrieve NGS data to and from databases and understanding the uses of NGS data in whole genome assembly, gene expression analysis, genome annotation, gene regulation…
Statistics: Making Sense of Data

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Busisiwe Mlotshwa -

This course will provide an intuitive introduction to applied statistical reasoning, introducing fundamental statistical skills and acquainting students with the full process of inquiry and evaluation used in investigations in a wide range of fields. In particular, the course will cover methods of data collection, constructing effective graphical…
Software Carpentry instructor training

Material type: Self-paced
Submitted by Ms Kim Gurwitz -

"We offer a free online training course for people who would like to teach Software Carpentry, and to learn more about teaching in general along the way. The course takes 2-4 hours a week for 12-14 weeks (depending on interruptions); most work is done on trainees' own time, and is posted to the course blog. While we would like to help…