Forum:PhD course or workshop in statistics for RNA-seq analysis

Question

[Annika Forsingdal]

I would like to get a better understanding of the statistics that form the basis of RNA-seq analysis programs.

What courses/workshops can be recommended?

I'm mostly interested in courses/workshops that lasts a couple of days to a couple of weeks.

Thanks,
Annika

[Michael]

Look at the Similar posts column at the right, there are such courses posted here frequently.

[Annika Forsingdal]

Thank you for the reply.

I have looked at many of the courses/workshops in those posts, but as I understand they are all teaching how to do the analysis and how to use different tools. I'm missing courses that covers how the statistics that the different tools are based on work and what it is that different tools do differently. It is not the RNA-seq analysis I would like an introduction to (I have attended such a course), it is the statistics that is used in RNA-seq analysis that I would like an introduction to.

[Michael]

Maybe then an introduction course to discrete statistics and Bayesian statistics ? Mostly, statistics of RNA-seq is the statistic of counts. Your university should cover this.

Answer 1

[Lars]

The Canadian Bioinformatics Workshops are also pretty good!