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…

H3ABioNet Data Management Workshop June 3 - 6, 2014, Cape Town

Description:
The goal of the H3ABioNet Data Management workshop is to prepare H3Africa researchers for management of their data, including knowing what data to collect, what file formats, etc. to use. The course will present options for setting up and storing patient data, discuss the EGA requirements to ensure the researchers collect all the necessary data,…

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…

Medical population genetics and GWAS for complex diseases 19th April - 24th April, 2015

Description:
The workshop was split into two tracks:

1) An introductory track that will cover fundamental assumptions, showcase recent successes and discuss limitations of current GWAS approaches in the field of complex diseases, particularly in the case of African populations with known low linkage disequilibrium (LD). It will also provide a ‘…

NMIMR H3ABioNet Intermediate Bioinformatics Workshop 7th to 11th July, 2014

Description:
This Intermediate Bioinformatics Workshop will strengthen and expand on some relevant tools in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. It will also serve as a refresher for trainees of the previous workshop enabling a better integration of Bioinformatics into their on-going research and teaching. This workshop will prepare participants…

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…

Analysing the Microbiome 29th to 31st March 2017

Description:
The development of next generation sequence technology has led to rapid advances in microbiome study. The Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience with support from the Pan-African Bioinformatics Network for H3Africa will be offering a short-course on the bioinformatics of analysing the microbiome. The course will give an overview of…

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 Advanced Systems Administration Workshop - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit, University of Pretoria 2nd to 11th Feb 2015

Module: Linux systems; HPC management; Job scheduling; Cluster security; Backups
Material type: Exercises , Slides , Tutorial
Course Level: Advanced
Submitted by Dr Verena Ras - September 22, 2025, 11:16 am
Year created: 2015
Year latest update: 2015

Description:
In keeping with the H3ABioNet Consortium's mandate to build and develop bioinformatics capacity in Africa, the Infrastructure Working Group (ISWG) is organizing an H3ABioNet-Funded Technical-Training workshop for System Administrators of the various Nodes and H3Africa projects. This is a follow up to the initial systems administration…