Spring 2015 Intermediate R instruction, a FHCRC short course for scientists
Jerry Davison, FHCRC Genomics & Bioinformatics Shared Resource
Day 1 class date: Monday May 4 in M1-A303, 9:00am - 1:00pm
Day 2 class date: Monday May 11 in M1-A303, 9:00am - 1:00pm
The FHCRC Genomics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource is presenting a short course over two half-days at the FHCRC Day Campus teaching aspects of computing with R. Registration is now open, attendance is limited to FHCRC faculty, staff and students, and Cancer Consortium and UW CFAR members.
The course is intended for scientists who are familiar with and comfortable using R; class members will use their personal laptops to access high-performance computers and work with example data. No credits are offered for this free and informal course.
Topics covered:
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Day 1, efficient R programming considerations and measuring performance; warning, errors and debugging; high-performance Linux computers, common Linux commands, using multiple cores to speed execution. For the FHCRC attendees we will cover the computing resources provided by the Hutch scientific computing group. We present in-class exercises and discuss your solutions.
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Day 2, an introduction to RNA-seq analysis: experiment design, sequencing and alignment, counting reads, organizing the datasets. Normalization, filtering, calculating differential representation, and assessing per-gene statistical significance. Abundant in-class exercises.
To register for the course complete the form at the web page below. If you have questions about the course please contact jdavison@fhcrc.org.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GTRSCVC
We’ll email registrants more information on Wednesday April 29.