CEPLAS RNASeq Workshop 2022

Key dates

• Date: August 22-24, 2022
• Tutors: Alisandra Denton and Dominik Brilhaus
• Location: Building 25.41. Room 00.41 (at ZIM HHU, Düsseldorf)
• Prerequisites
  • Technical
    • Computers incl. required software and course material are provided during the course.
    • Participants can bring own laptops, but without guarantee (possible system-specific dependencies)
  • Expertise
    • Some pre-knowledge in programming may help, but is not required.
    • First (half) day will be an optional introduction.

Topics (preliminary)

• [Optional, if needed] Basic introduction to tools and programming (e.g. with Linux/Bash, R, Python)

• Introduction to read processing and quality control

• Introduction to read mapping and quantification

• Long and short reads

  • Transcriptome assembly

• Post-mapping analysis

  • Differential gene expression
  • Clustering
  • Functional annotation and enrichment
  • Visualization

Registration

• Participants:

• CEPLAS researchers of all levels

• Open to non-CEPLAS researchers, if max. participant number is not reached

• min. / max. participants: 10 / 20

• Registration phase: June 27th - July 20th

• Topic wishlist: If you would like to learn about specific topics or tools related to RNA-Seq data analysis, please raise them during the registration.

• Basic Intro: Please let us know your programming expertise and wether you interested in a basic introduction to programming.