Quick Introduction to the Workshop and Core

The mission of the Bioinformatics Core facility is to facilitate outstanding omics-scale research through these activities:

Staff and Students

Our team offers custom bioinformatics services to academic and private organizations. We have a strong academic background with a focus on cutting edge, open source software. We replicate standard analysis pipelines (best practices) when appropriate, and/or develop novel applications and pipelines when needed, however we always emphasize biological interpretation of the data.

Contacts

• Request for data analysis services, consultations.

  bioinformatics.core@ucdavis.edu

• Bioinformatics training course information

  training.bioinformatics@ucdavis.edu

• Computing Issues, include but not limited to user account questions, equipment failure/malfunction, software install, software failures (not related to use).

  helpdesk@genomecenter.ucdavis.edu

Structure of the Virtual Workshops

Given the current Covid19 pandemic, and stay in place orders around the world, we’ve decided to take our popular bioinformatic workshops virtual. Our intent is to offer as close to an experience we can to our in-person workshops. We will hold the same goals and strive for a similar lecture/hand-on ratio. We will be using multiple technologies in order to help facilitate a maximum amount of interaction.

Zoom

Course lecture, discussions, and one-on-one help/troubleshooting will be conducted using a zoom meeting.

• Each participant will be provided a personal break out room that will allow one-on-one troubleshooting by our staff, screen sharing and even remote control.
• The Chat features of Zoom will not be our primary mode of text communication as its history is not reliable.
• We will stick to a schedule to allow people to plan their day and know when they need to be back at their computers for lecture.
• Video recordings of lectures will be made available to participants.

Because video is involved, we ask everyone to be respectful and we reserve the right to remove someone if they are being disrespectful or disruptive.

Learn more about how we use Zoom in our workshops.

Slack

Text based communication will be conducted via a Slack channel. Staff will be monitoring the Slack channel to answer questions (and schedule a Zoom break out room if needed). If you know the answer to someone else’s question, feel free to answer it.

Learn more about how we use Slack in our workshops.

Patience

We ask for a little more patience as this process is also new to us, but we are committed to providing you the best educational experience we can (under the current conditions).

Workshop Goals

This workshop will cover the basic computational and statistical concepts needed before performing bioinformatics analysis.

• Access to a multi-core (24 cpu or greater), ‘high’ memory 64Gb or greater Linux server.
• Familiarity with the ’command line’ and constructing scripts/pipelines.
• Basic knowledge of how to install software
• Basic knowledge of R (or equivalent) and statistical programming
• Basic knowledge of Statistics and model building

The course will include experimental data organization, basic command line and high performance computing concepts, how to install software, use help, run applications, and the basics of building scripts and pipelines. Also covered will be basic R programming, working with data tables and generating figures, basic statistical concepts, and statistical model building.

• Goal is 30-40% lecture/discussion 60-70% hands-on

Workshop Materials

Workshop materials are all posted on github, and publicly available

http://bioinformatics.ucdavis.edu/training

• Workshop registration site:

  https://registration.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/

• Public Github repository listing:

  https://ucdavis-bioinformatics-training.github.io/

• This Bioinformatics: Command Line / R Workshop

  https://ucdavis-bioinformatics-training.github.io/2020-Bioinformatics_Prerequisites_Workshop/

Computing Cluster

A portion of this course will be conducted on our servers and compute cluster (tadpole.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu).

Everyone should get an account.
https://computing.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu

Request an account -> sponsor is “Bioinformatics Core Workshop”

If you already have, or have had in the past, an account on our systems, then please tell us your username, or email, and we will add you to the workshop. Do not create a new account

Cluster usage will be under the slurm reservation ‘prereq_workshop’