Introduction to genome variation analysis using NGS

Prerequisites

This course provides an introduction to the analysis of human genome sequence variation with next generation sequencing data (NGS), including:

• an introduction to genetic variation as well as data formats and analysis workflows commonly used in NGS data analysis;
• an overview of available analytical tools and discussion of their limitations; and
• hands-on experience with common computational workflows for analysing genome sequence variation using bioinformatics and computational genomics approaches.

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• Graduate students, Postdocs and Staff members from the University of Cambridge, Affiliated Institutions and other external Institutions or individuals
• Please be aware that these courses are only free for University of Cambridge students. All other participants will be charged a registration fee in some form. Registration fees and further details regarding the charging policy are available here
• Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available here

• Basic experience of command line UNIX
• Sufficient UNIX experience might be obtained from one of the many UNIX tutorials available online.

Number of sessions: 2

Bioinformatics, Data handling, Data mining, Data visualisation, Genomics, Sequence variations

After this course you should be able to:

• Recognize the challenges and pitfalls of the analysis of human genome sequence variation
• Recognize issues with the data
• Visualize alignments and variants using a genome viewer
• Evaluate the quality of your alignments and your variants
• Understand the standard file formats for representing variant data
• Apply filters to your list of variants
• Functionally annotate variants

During this course you will learn about:

• Introduction to genome variation
• Experimental design
• Genome sequence alignment
• Data quality assessment
• Variant calling
• Variant filtering, effect prediction and prioritisation
• Genome-wide association

Presentations, demonstrations and practicals

• 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
• It remains the participant's responsibility to acquire prior approval from the relevant group leader, line manager or budget holder to attend the course. It is requested that people booking only do so with the agreement of the relevant party as costs will be charged back to your Lab Head or Group Supervisor.
• £ 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

2 days

A number of times per year

• Variant Analysis with GATK
• EMBL-EBI: European Variation Archive
• Introduction to Python for Biologists (ONLINE LIVE TRAINING)