Re: Course: Learning R / Bioconductor for Sequence Analysis, Seattle, WA Oct 27-29

On 09/15/2014 09:34 AM, Dale N. Richardson wrote:
> Seconded! An online version of the course would be indispensable.

It's a lot (as in months) of work to produce a true online course, and the =

material becomes dated very quickly!

The static material from courses is at =

http://bioconductor.org/help/course-materials/

The 'community' page http://bioconductor.org/help/course-materials/ include=
s =

links to some videos and on-line material, including the EdX MOOC: PH525x D=
ata =

Analysis for Genomics and some initial videos produced here =

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3Dbioconductor.

We haven't looked at the infrastructure or cost (including opportunity cost=
) =

required to live stream three days worth of material (probably including 2 =
days =

worth of 'um' and 'oops'); maybe there's a sponsor out there willing to pro=
vide =

us with technical and financial support for this?

The obstacles to making video available for the lecture part of our courses=
 is =

becoming smaller, so it is not impossible to imagine that these will become=
 part =

of the Bioc video collection (no promises with respect to the current cours=
e).

While obviously not scalable, there are many training events offered each y=
ear =

http://bioconductor.org/help/events/.

Hope that helps,

Martin


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> On 15/09/2014, at 17:27, Son Pham <spham-xrR1t/[email protected] <mailto:spham-xrR1t/[email protected]>=
> wrote:
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>> Thanks Martin for offering the course. It's fantastics -- and if it would
>> be an online course, like coursera, it will also be great for a lot of
>> distant people.
>>
>> -Son.
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>> Son Pham, Ph.D
>> cseweb.ucsd.edu/~kspham/ <http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~kspham/>
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>> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Martin Morgan <[email protected]> wrot=
e:
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>>> Course: Learning R / Bioconductor for Sequence Analysis
>>>
>>> Dates: October 27-29, Seattle, WA.
>>>
>>> Registration: https://register.bioconductor.org/Seattle-Oct-2014/
>>>
>>> This course is directed at beginning and intermediate users who would l=
ike
>>> an introduction to the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput
>>> sequence data using R and Bioconductor. Day 1 focuses on learning essen=
tial
>>> background: an introduction to the R programming language; central conc=
epts
>>> for effective use of Bioconductor software; and an overview of
>>> high-throughput sequence analysis work flows. Day 2 emphasizes use of
>>> Bioconductor for specific tasks: an RNA-seq differential expression work
>>> flow; exploratory, machine learning, and other statistical tasks; gene =
set
>>> enrichment; and annotation. Day 3 transitions to understanding effective
>>> approaches for managing larger challenges: strategies for working with
>>> large data, writing re-usable functions, developing reproducible reports
>>> and work flows, and visualizing results. The course combines lectures w=
ith
>>> extensive hands-on practicals; students are required to bring a laptop =
with
>>> wireless internet access and a modern version of the Chrome or Safari w=
eb
>>> browser.
>>> --
>>> Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
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