Bioinformatics Bootcamp
Open Source Bioinformatics Education
At BIG, our goal is to make bioinformatics accessible to everyone. That is why we are committed to providing our workshops for free and hosting our materials in open-source forums like GitHub.
Flexible Participation
Synchronous
Attend the live sessions and receive one-on-one help from our instructors. Sign up early, enrollment is capped at 100 participants.
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Asynchronous
Sessions are recorded and posted here with other workshop materials. These remain available even after the course ends.
Workshops
Biomedical Machine Learning with Python
Summary: This two-part workshop teaches python for data science (part I) and fundamental machine learning concepts for applications in biomedical science (part II).
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Date and Time: Every Tuesday 5-6:50PM CST on Zoom
from June 8th - August 24th, 2021
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Prerequisites: None.
Time required: 50+ hours to complete, 12 weeks
R For Biologists
Summary: This free workshop will teach you fundamental R programming concepts, and basic data science for biological research applications.
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Date and Time: Every-other Monday 5-6:30PM CST on Zoom
from February 22nd - May 3rd, 2021
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Prerequisites: None.
Time required: 30+ hours to complete, 12 weeks
Intro to Single Cell RNA-Sequencing
Summary: This free workshop will teach you fundamental methods for the analysis of single cell RNA-Sequencing datasets.
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Date and Time: Tuesdays 5-6:30PM CST on Zoom
from February 9th - March 16th, 2021
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Prerequisites: R programming and RNA-Seq analysis.
Time required: 14+ hours to complete, 6 weeks
R Programming and RNA-Seq Analysis
Summary: Never coded before? No problem. This workshop will teach you R programming and give you the skills to analyze RNA-Sequencing data starting from scratch.
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Date and Time: Tuesdays 5-6:30PM CST on Zoom
from Sept 1st - Dec 8th
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Prerequisites: None.
Time required: 50+ hours to complete, 12 weeks