We are happy to announce 2016 edition of the course “CB2-201: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics”, offered under the umbrella of CB2 initiative at UAB (http://www.uab.edu/cb2). The course will start on February 15 and will run for two consecutive weeks. The course is a hands-on, rigorous, and fast-paced introduction to essential skills in modern Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, modeled after the NSF "immersive learning" proposal (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08204/index.jsp).

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• Date and Time
  Feb 15 – 26, 2016. 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM everyday.
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• Location
  Volker Hall VH-G073
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• Syllabus
  
  1. Technical aspects and high-performance computing (HPC) 101 - talk
  2. Biological Data Sources and File Formats - handout and talf
  3. Sequence Alignment
  4. Homology search – BLAST, HMMER, PSSMs talk and handout
  5. Evolutionary and comparative genomics; molecular evolution - handout and talk
  6. Protein Structure; mutational effects on structure; varianteffect predictors.
  7. NGS: NGS data quality assessment and preprocessing - handout and talk
  8. NGS: Alignment to reference; BAM; SAM.
  9. NGS: Variant Calling, VCF, Tabix
  10. NGS: Introduction to RNAseq analysis; RSEM - handout
  and talk


• Evaluation

  In this page we included the evaluation form anonymously compiled by the participants to evaluate the quality of our course. Answers submitted with numbers from 1 (worst) to 10 (best) have been included in the following statistics calculated by R. The evaluation form was compiled by 5 participants which rated the course with an average score of 8.6 over 10 (see data and code).

  
  
• Additional Materials

  The Art Of Sequence Analysis

• Previous Editions
  

  Feb 2015

  Held February 16-27, 2015 and successfully completed by 8 participants.