This course is now full with a waiting list.
This is a course on bioinformatics resources taught by the developers of the resources. Bgee is a curated database of gene expression in animals, including model species such as human, mouse or drosophila, and others such as livestock, primates, or fishes. Bgee integrates information from single-cell and bulk RNA-seq, microarrays, and in situ hybridization. These data are available through a web interface and an R package. Bgee also includes tools which use these data, such as TopAnat or Expression Comparison, and allows integration with users' own data through another R package. In this course, we will present the curated and pre-analysed gene expression data in Bgee. Hands-on will be open to make use of the Bgee companion tools, Bgee’s online functionalities, or Bgee R packages to retrieve data and integrate them into one’s own workflow (e.g. RNA-seq analysis R script).
This course is addressed to life scientists who need to retrieve curated gene expression, obtain expression-based knowledge on genes of interest, or compare expression between genes and between species.
After the theoretical course, participants should be able to:
After the hands-on course, participants should be able to either:
Series 1:
Series 2:
Theory and hands-on series 1: none. Knowledge of R is required for hands-on series 2.
This course will be streamed, you are thus required to have your own computer with an internet connection.
9:00-12:15 CET time zone - Online lectures (Frédéric Bastian and Marc Robinson-Rechavi)
12:15 - 13:15 CET time zone - Lunch break
13:15-17:15 Hands-on, divided into parallel series (Frédéric Bastian, Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Sara Fonseca and Julien Wollbrett).
Series 1: Bgee web tools
Series 2: Bgee R tools
The registration fees for academics are 60 CHF and 300 CHF for for-profit companies.
Students are requested to indicate in their application to which series the intent to participate in.
You will be informed by email of your registration confirmation. Upon reception of the confirmation email, participants will be asked to confirm attendance by paying the fees within 5 days.
Applications will close as soon as the places will be filled up. Deadline for free-of-charge cancellation is set to 04.06.2021. Cancellation after this date will not be reimbursed. Please note that participation in SIB courses is subject to our general conditions.
This course will be streamed for registered participants. The course will start at 9:00 and end at 17:15 CET. Precise information will be provided to the participants on due time.
Coordination: Valeria Di Cola (valeria.dicola@sib.swiss)
We will recommend 0.25 ECTS credits for this course (given a passed exam at the end of the course).
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Please note that participation in SIB courses is subject to our general conditions.
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