Course on UNIX and Genomic Data - Prague, 2019

This course aims to introduce the participants to UNIX - an interface that is one of the most convenient options for working with big textual data. Special attention is put on working with Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. Most of the NGS data formats are intentionally text based because the authors wanted to use UNIX for the processing. By combining basic UNIX tools one can achieve results that would require programming or finding specialized software for each of the tasks in other environments.

Not knowing ‘the right way’ to do things can be intimidating for beginners, so an additional section exploring ‘best practice’ is available for self learning.

Schedule:

Friday February 1st (14:00-18:00)
Afternoon I
  • Course Intro
  • Introduction to Unix
Afternoon Break (~ 0.5h)
Afternoon II Unix - Basic
Saturday February 2nd (9:30-18:30)
Morning
  • Introduction to Genomics
  • Unix - Advanced I
Lunch (~ 1.5h)
Afternoon I Unix - Advanced II
Afternoon Break (~ 0.5h)
Afternoon II Graphic Session
Sunday February 3rd (9:30-18:30)
Morning
  • Read Quality
  • Assembly
Lunch (~ 1.5h)
Afternoon I Genomic tools
Afternoon Break (~ 0.5h)
Afternoon II Exercise (Variant quality)

Initial instructions:

Course outline:

Slack chat room.

Additional reference materials:

Supplemental information: