Courses 2024
15/02/2024 - 10:30 to 16/02/2024 - 13:30
This course is designed to teach the fundamental concepts and practical guidelines for ensuring that everyday data generation and management tasks fit into reproducible scientific workflows. The course emphasizes the importance of open data formats...
19/02/2024 - 12:00 to 21/02/2024 - 12:00
This course is designed to teach the basics of everyday Linux Containers usage. Participants will learn what Linux Containers are and why they are relevant to today's scientific practice. They will learn hands-on Docker, the most popular container...
22/02/2024 - 09:30
This course provides an introduction to using the linux terminal. It is suitable for complete beginners who have never used the command line before.
Anybody who intends to use the cluster for data analysis and is not confident in the terminal should...
28/02/2024 - 12:15 to 08/03/2024 - 12:15
The course will guide you to setup a development environment using VS Code together with Gitlab and creating a personal Git repository for the course. Afterwards, it will provide Python programming concepts, covering variables, functions, loops,...
11/03/2024 - 10:30 to 12/03/2024 - 13:30
The aim of this course is to give a general overview on Nextflow, focusing on the execution, configuration and deployment of local and publicly available pipelines.
Topics that are going to be addressed:
Understand Nextflow’s basic concepts
Execute...
19/03/2024 - 10:00 to 20/03/2024 - 17:00
This crash course was born to spread the word on the existence of R packages that offer great functions to quickly explore, present, and communicate our results.
During the sessions, we will use data visualization to try to answer questions and...
12/03/2024 - 14:30 to 21/03/2024 - 17:30
This course aims to provide basic notions of R programming to people that have NEVER worked with R and that want to learn how to use it for data analysis and visualization.
The Introduction to R course starts from the very basics of R language,...
21/03/2024 - 10:30 to 22/03/2024 - 13:30
This course is an introduction to the cluster. It will explain the key concepts of a cluster and how to launch a simple job. Some general advice on best practice and practices to be avoided will be covered.
Topics that are going to be addressed: ...
09/04/2024 - 10:30 to 16/04/2024 - 13:30
This course will consolidate material presented in the beginner cluster course and expand on the concepts to be aware of when trying to optimize use of the cluster.
The main message of the course is to embrace the parallelism available within the...
04/04/2024 - 09:00 to 13/06/2024 - 13:00
Basics of Biostatistics - Statistical Empowerment: Take the Best Advantage of Your Data and Research
The course will give an overview of important concepts and methods used to analyse “Biomedical data”. The primary focus will be on developing a...