Courses

UCT CBIO Software Carpentry Workshop March 2022

Description:
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover an introduction to The Shell, Python and R. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

Virtual Software Carpentry Workshop, NGS Academy 2021

Description:
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to…

Ensembl Genome Browser Workshop May 2019

Description:
The Ensembl project at www.ensembl.org provides a comprehensive and integrated source of annotation of mainly vertebrate genome sequences. This 1-day workshop offers participants the possibility of gaining hands-on experience in the use of the Ensembl genome browser but also provides them with the necessary background information. Our sister…

Bioschemas Workshop Cape Town May_2019

Description:
Various data intensive initiatives are taking place in South Africa that will involve in the storing and describing of genomics data in various platforms. The utility of data for research and reuse is how well structured and described the data and meta-data records are as this contributes towards making data FAIR. Bioschemas (https://bioschemas.…

Bioinformatics analysis and annotation of variants in NGS data

Description:
This workshop provides an introduction to the computational analyses of NGS data from pre-processing to the identification and annotation of genomic variants and the functional effects of those variants, as well as the use of pharmocogenomic databases.

Prerequisites
Participants are encouraged to work through the following…

Introductory Python based Software Carpentry 2018

Description:
oftware Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to…

H3ABioNet Postgraduate Bioinformatics Workshop 21st April-26th May 2014 Covenant University Bioinformatics Research (CUBRe), Ota Nigeria

Module: Introduction to linux and Python programing, Introduction to bioinformatics resources, Sequence alignment and proteomics resources, Introduction to Biostatistics, NGS, GWAS, Databases, Workflows
Material type: Assignments , Exercises , Lecture notes , Slides , Tutorial
Course Level: Beginner
Submitted by Dr Verena Ras - September 22, 2025, 11:08 am
Year created: 2014
Year latest update: 2014

Description:
The H3Africa initiative is aimed at studying the genomic and environmental determinants of disease in Africa. The goals of H3Africa are to enhance the necessary genomic expertise among African scientists and to encourage collaborations between African investigators by supporting infrastructure development and research projects. H3ABioNet aims to…

Ensembl Browser Workshop- University of Cape Town, 6th June 2016

Description:
The Ensembl project at www.ensembl.org provides a comprehensive and integrated source of annotation of mainly vertebrate genome sequences. This 1-day workshop offers participants the possibility of gaining hands-on experience in the use of the Ensembl genome browser but also provides them with the necessary background information. Our sister…

Practical Course on Gene/Protein Functional Networks and Interactomes

Module: Network biology; Protein–protein interactions; Functional annotation; Tools for interactomes
Material type: Exercises , Slides , Tutorial
Course Level: Beginner
Submitted by Dr Verena Ras - September 22, 2025, 10:17 am
Year created: 2014
Year latest update: 2015

Description:
This was a short practical course on Bioinformatics for biologists, molecular biologists or young researchers working in the field of biomedical or biological sciences who are interested in learning, in a practical way, how to build and explore gene and protein networks and how to place in a relational context (i.e. in a network-based context) the…

Introduction to Nextflow Workshop 2020

Description:
The use of workflow technologies such as Nextflow is becoming increasingly pervasive in bioinformatics. Workflows automate the execution of various bioinformatics tools and pipelines and reduces the time one spends on running the different steps in a particular pipeline while testing various parameters as well as enabling reproducible analysis.…