Workshop locations Dates
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Bowie State University, Bowie, MD June 8-12, 2015
California State University, Long Beach, CA June 22-26, 2015
We are pleased to update you on Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center's (DNALC) National Science Foundation-funded project, *Infrastructure and Training to Bring Next-generation Sequence (NGS) Analysis Into Undergraduate Education. The goal of this project is to prepare faculty to guide students as co-investigators in novel genome research, focusing on high-throughput RNA-Seq as a tractable entry to NGS. Several faculty participated in our Working Group Retreat held at CSHL in June 2014 and helped refine the RNA-Seq workflow. The Green Line of [DNA Subway*]3, an intuitive browser-based interface, supports RNA-Seq analysis and provides an easy biological "on ramp" to the national supercomputing highway. The NSF Proposal Summary and Narrative provides details about the project rationale and structure.
We invite you to apply to attend a 5-day RNA-Seq Workshop in June, 2015. Twenty participants will be selected for each workshop on the basis of their proposal to use and teach RNA-Seq for transcriptome sequencing and genome annotation or differential gene expression. Workshop applications require a formatted RNA-Seq Proposal (Project Proposal Guidelines), a description of course and/or research contexts in which students will be involved, and potential numbers of students involved and duration of exposures (Applicant Information Form [PDF or Word]). A support letter from the department head must be submitted along with the application that demonstrates an institutional commitment to incorporate NGS analysis in appropriate courses and to analyze RNA-Seq datasets during the 2015-16 academic year.
An exciting aspect of this project is available funding to support some faculty at each workshop to develop new RNA-Seq datasets as part of their research. Please keep in mind that the proposed organism must be eukaryotic and have a fully sequenced and annotated genome. These participants must be able to submit high-quality RNA for sequencing by March 3, 2015. The other participants in each workshop will join a funded project or work with an existing dataset. Prior to the workshop, participants can become familiar with the project by visiting the pages of this RNA-Seq website and through participation in project videoconferences.
Despite it is OK to ask this question here, its open question format is better suited for seqanswers. Then you can ask here close questions about specific courses or resources. I could be wrong but I see QA sites more effective when the forum questions type are in a very low proportion. Having said that I have found very useful the links in the answers and probably I would have miss them in the seqanswers sea of entries ;-)
Hi..We, Bionivid Technology in India are providing NGS Data Analysis learning program...Its a 5-days hands on training program whch includes both DNA and RNA seq data analysis training..for more info please visit http://www.bionivid.com/learning.html
This BioStars post seem relevant: Where To Look For Quality Bioinformatics Short Courses And Workshops?
Hi,
I am in Kenya. I am so much interested in NGS analysis locally. Anybody knows a reputable organization here doing the same. Or alternatively who is ready for partnership to start one good one here.
Beatrice:
Hi,
If you are just starting on NGS, I would strongly recommend you this online course based 100% on R; http://www.biocloudservices.com/NGS-course.html