The Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics has been awarded an R25 grant by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) through the Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative to fund a 6-week high-throughput sequencing summer course for the next three years.
The summer course will start July 2017, led by instructors from the faculty, students and staff of the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and the Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology. Course participants will learn introductory and topic-specific statistical principles, perform hands-on laboratory procedures for generating RNA-seq data, and practice data processing, analysis and visualization in R/BioConductor.
The grant will fund 24 students to attend the summer course, whose primary aim is to familiarize participants with the statistical, biological, and computational concepts and tools for implementing a well-designed and reproducible high-throughput sequencing experiment. We expect to host a diversity of students from both biological and quantitative disciplines. Course participants are primarily expected to be advanced undergraduate or graduate students, but postgraduate researchers and staff who can commit to attending the course full-time are also welcome.
Registration information will be posted on the departmental webpage in early 2017.