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We will meet at FNT 1.104 from Monday - Friday 1-4pm for our classes. You are strongly encouraged to attend in person, but if you would like to attend virtually, use this zoom link: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/98438535227 Zoom Instructions: Please make sure your zoom version is updated ( and that you have a zoom account )-- this is required to join a UT-sponsored Zoom session. See this link for more details about zoom requirements: https://zoom.its.utexas.edu/home Other setup: Please make sure you have an ssh client installed on your computer. All macs come with terminal, so no installation is required. For windows laptops, install putty and winSCP. You will also need a TACC account with multi factor authentication set up. |
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- To teach you about the different options that are available to you when setting up a RNA-Seq study.
- To teach you about the different options that are available to you when analyzing a RNA-Seq dataset.
- To familiarize you with how the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) can be used to simplify and speed up your data analysis.
- To familiarize you with some of the typically used RNA-Seq analyses methods.
- To provide a vocabulary to understand NGS and RNA-Seq terminology and to provide give you a starting point of where to begin you own data analysis, and enough experience that you can begin that analysis on your own.
Your Instructors
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| Dhivya Arasappan (Instructor) | Co-Director, Bioinformatics Consulting Group (BCG), CBRS | Unix, TACC, RNA-Seq, Single cell RNA-Seq, hybrid genome assembly, pacbio | darasappan@austin.utexas.edu or come to FNT1.206C |
Matthew Bramble (Teaching Assistant) | Bioinformatician, Bioinformatics Consulting Group (BCG), CBRS | Unix, R, RNA-Seq, variant analysis | mbramble@gmail.com or come to FNT 1.206D |
Day 1: Introduction to RNA-Seq
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Many thanks to Dr. Scott Hunicke-Smith and Dr. Jeff Barrick who taught the first Introduction to NGS course at UT. Many slides and wiki pages have been borrowed and adapted from their initial course. Also, thanks to Dennis Wylie, Anna Battenhouse, Benni Goetz who have also provided some material for this course |