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Your Instructors

  • Anna Battenhouse, Associate Research Scientist, Iyer Lab, abattenhouse@utexas.edu

    • BA English literature, 1978

    • Commercial software development 1982 – 2005

    • Joined Iyer Lab 2007 (“retirement career”)

    • BS Biochemistry, UT Austin, 2013

  • Amelia Weber Hall, PhD, Iyer Lab, ameliahall@utexas.edu

    • BS Molecular Genetics, 2007 (University of Rochester)

    • PhD Microbiology, 2017 (University of Texas at Austin)

    • Laboratory Technician at UT 2007-2010

  • Dakota Derryberry, M.S., dakotaz@utexas.edu

    • BA Biology, University of Chicago, 2009

    • MS Computational Biology, University of Texas at Austin, 2017

  • Benni Goetz, M.S., (Research Engineering/Scientist Associate III), benni@utexas.edu

    • joined the Bioinformatics Consulting Group in 2012

About the Iyer Lab

http://iyerlab.org/

Dr. Vishy Iyer, PI

Main focus is functional genomics

    • large-scale transciptional reprogramming
      in response to diverse stimuli
    • Encode consortium collaborator
    • work in human and yeast

 

Research methods include
  • microarrays (Dr. Iyer was co-inventor)

  • high-throughput sequencing (since 2007)
    • especially ChIP-seq
    • also RNA-seq, RIP-seq, MNase-seq ...
    • we now have > 1,700 800 NGS datasets

Communication

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  • Hands-on, tutorial style – learn by doing
    • common bioinformatics tools & file formats
  • Introduce NGS vocabulary
    • both high-level view and practice with specific tools
  • Cover the NGS basics
    • the first few things you'll do after receiving raw sequences
      • raw sequence preparation
      • alignment to reference
      • basic alignment analysis
  • Understand and practice required skills
    • Get you comfortable with Linux and TACC – your best "frenemies"
    • Make you self-sufficient enough in 4 days to become experts over time
    • Show some "best practices" for working with NGS data

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  • yeast:  5 – 20 million reads
  • human:  20 – 100 250 million reads
  • paired end, length 75 – 100 250 bases

The initial fastq files are big (100s of MB to GB) – and they're just the start.

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  • 2008 – Yeast heat shock remodeling of chromatin
    • 2 yeast datasets
    • less than 2 million sequences
  • 2010 – Allelic bias in CTCF binding
    • 13 CTCF datasets from 3 GM cell lines
    • ~200 million sequences
  • 2012 – Transcription factor data analysis (ENCODE2)
    • 32 ChIP-seq datasets gathered over 3 years (3 TFs across 11 cell lines)
    • ~ 1 billion sequences
  • 2013 – miRNA overexpression effects
    • 42 RNAseq datasets (7 conditions)
    • ~ 2.6 billion sequences
  • 2014 – eQTL analysis of CTCF binding
    • 52 very deeply sequenced CTCF datasets
    • ~ 8 billion sequences
  • 2017 (in progress review) – Functional analysis of glioblastoma tumors and cell lines
    • > 400 datasets so far nearly 500 datasets in total (ChIP-seq, RNAseq, miRNAseq, 4C, exome/genome sequencing)
    • > 22 billion sequences

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