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- Use R / Bioconductor for Sequence Analysis
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.