Tuesday 5 May 2026 9:30am
Research Informatics Training Room, Craik-Marshall Building
About
Date: Tue 5 May 2026
Time: 09:30 - 17:30
Location: Research Informatics Training Room, Craik-Marshall Building
♿ The training room is located on the first floor and there is currently no wheelchair or level access.
Participants can make use of the computers in the training room, unless otherwise advised. Instructions on specific system requirements and downloads will be provided when a booking is secured.
Please ensure you meet the target audience criteria and prerequisites before registering for a course.
Event Overview
Setting up a computer for running bioinformatic analysis can be a challenging process. Most bioinformatic applications involve the use of many different software packages, which are often part of long data processing pipelines. In this course we will teach you how to overcome these challenges by using package managers and workflow management software.
We will have examples of software and pipelines for processing different types of data (RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, variant calling and viral genomes), making this course appealing to researchers working in a wide range of applications.
However, please note that we will not cover the details of any specific type of bioinformatic analysis. The idea of this course is to introduce the computational tools to get your work done, not to teach how those tools work. We will also not teach you how to write your own pipelines, or create your own software containers, but rather on how to use existing tools to boost your bioinformatic analysis.
How to book Target audience- Researchers who are starting to run bioinformatics analysis on their own.
- Attendees of our training courses on specific applications (e.g. RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, variant calling, etc.) will greatly benefit from this course.
- HPC users who would like to learn how to manage software and automate and parallelise analyses using available pipelines.
Essential:
- A working knowledge of the UNIX command line is essential.
- If you are not able to attend this prerequisite course, please work through our Unix command line materials ahead of the course (up to section 6).
- Basic understanding of high-throughput sequencing technologies.
- Watch this iBiology video for an excellent overview.
Preferable:
- A knowledge of how to work on a HPC server using SLURM. If you don't know how to work on a HPC, you will struggle to follow the last session of the course.
- A general knowledge the data processing steps for at least one "omics" application (e.g. RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, variant calling, bacterial genomics, metagenomics, etc.).
Fees must be paid at registration.
Free for registered University of Cambridge students
£ 65/full day for all University of Cambridge staff, including postdocs.
£ 65/full day for all academic participants from external Institutions and charitable organizations.
£ 130/full day for all Industry participants.
For further information about the courses, please email the Research Informatics Training Team.