Use R / Bioconductor for Sequence Analysis

San Francisco, USA

2015-02-04 ~ 2015-02-04

Instructors

• Martin Morgan
• Hervé Pagès

Description

This course is directed at intermediate users wanting to make effective use of R and Bioconductor for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput sequence data. The morning provides overall orientation to the packages and facilities available in Bioconductor, including and in-depth look at the central GenomicRanges infrastructure. The afternoon provides approaches to common challenges -- working with large data, placing statistical results in biological context, and effectively and reliably communicating results with other team members. The course combines lectures with extensive hands-on practicals; participants are required to bring a laptop with wireless internet access and a modern version of the Chrome or Safari web browser.

Materials

Course Package for use with R-3.2.x and Bioconductor 3.1.

To launch an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for this course:

• Create an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Account if you don’t already have one.
• Start the instance ami-ded79ab6; See the documentation for this. Make sure your security group has port 80 accessible.
• Paste the Public DNS name of your instance into a web browser.
• Log in to RStudio with username ubuntu and password bioc .
• Be sure and terminate your instance when you are done using it, in order to avoid excessive charges.