CRUK: Introduction to Galaxy: Data Manipulation and Visualisation

Galaxy is an open, web-based platform for data intensive life science research that enables non-bioinformaticians to create, run, tune, and share their own bioinformatic analyses.

This introductory course will cover Galaxy's basic functionality, simple data manipulation and visualization. This event is mostly targeted at first time users.

Further information is available from the course website.

This event is part of a series of training courses organized in collaboration with Dr. Mark Dunning at CRUK Cambridge Institute.

Please note that if you are not eligible for a University of Cambridge Raven account you will need to Book by linking here.

• Graduate students, Postdocs and Staff members from the University of Cambridge, Affiliated Institutions and other external Institutions or individuals
• Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available here

Number of sessions: 1

• Introduction to Galaxy
• Overview of tools
• Data import and storage
• Data filtering and sorting
• Operations on genomic intervals and the genomic space
• Workflows
• Data visualisation
• Data sharing

Presentation and demonstrations

• Free for University of Cambridge students
• £ 50/day for all University of Cambridge staff, including postdocs, and participants from Affiliated Institutions. Please note that these charges are recovered by us at the Institutional level
• £ 50/day for all other academic participants from external Institutions and charitable organizations. These charges must be paid at registration
• £ 100/day for all Industry participants. These charges must be paid at registration
• Further details regarding the charging policy are available here

One full day session

A number of times per year

• Introduction to Galaxy: RNA-seq and ChIP-seq data analysis