WORKSHOP: R: fundamental skills for biologists
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘R: fundamental skills for biologists’. This workshop took place over four, three-hour sessions on 1, 8, 15 and 22 June 2022.
Event description
Biologists need data analysis skills to be able to...
Keywords: Bioinformatics, Analysis, Statistics, R software, RStudio, Data visualisation
WORKSHOP: R: fundamental skills for biologists
https://zenodo.org/records/6766951
https://dresa.org.au/materials/workshop-r-fundamental-skills-for-biologists-81aa00db-63ad-4962-a7ac-b885bf9f676b
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘R: fundamental skills for biologists’. This workshop took place over four, three-hour sessions on 1, 8, 15 and 22 June 2022.
Event description
Biologists need data analysis skills to be able to interpret, visualise and communicate their research results. While Excel can cover some data analysis needs, there is a better choice, particularly for large and complex datasets.
R is a free, open-source software and programming language that enables data exploration, statistical analysis, visualisation and more. The large variety of R packages available for analysing biological data make it a robust and flexible option for data of all shapes and sizes.
Getting started can be a little daunting for those without a background in statistics and programming. In this workshop we will equip you with the foundations for getting the most out of R and RStudio, an interactive way of structuring and keeping track of your work in R. Using biological data from a model of influenza infection, you will learn how to efficiently and reproducibly organise, read, wrangle, analyse, visualise and generate reports from your data in R.
Topics covered in this workshop include:
Spreadsheets, organising data and first steps with R
Manipulating and analysing data with dplyr
Data visualisation
Summarized experiments and getting started with Bioconductor
This workshop is presented by the Australian BioCommons and Saskia Freytag from WEHI with the assistance of a network of facilitators from the national Bioinformatics Training Cooperative.
Materials are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International agreement unless otherwise specified and were current at the time of the event.
Files and materials included in this record:
Event metadata (PDF): Information about the event including, description, event URL, learning objectives, prerequisites, technical requirements etc.
Index of training materials (PDF): List and description of all materials associated with this event including the name, format, location and a brief description of each file.
Schedule (PDF): A breakdown of the topics and timings for the workshop
Recommended resources (PDF): A list of resources recommended by trainers and participants
Q_and_A(PDF): Archive of questions and their answers from the workshop Slack Channel.
Materials shared elsewhere:
This workshop follows the tutorial ‘Introduction to data analysis with R and Bioconductor’ which is publicly available.
https://saskiafreytag.github.io/biocommons-r-intro/
This is derived from material produced as part of The Carpentries Incubator project
https://carpentries-incubator.github.io/bioc-intro/
Melissa Burke (melissa@biocommons.org.au)
Freytag, Saskia (orcid: 0000-0002-2185-7068)
Barugahare, Adele (orcid: 0000-0002-8976-0094)
Doyle, Maria
Ansell, Brendan (orcid: 0000-0003-0297-897X)
Varshney, Akriti
Bourke, Caitlin (orcid: 0000-0002-4466-6563)
Conradsen, Cara (orcid: 0000-0001-9797-3412)
Jung, Chol-Hee (orcid: 0000-0002-2992-3162)
Sandoval, Claudia
Chandrananda, Dineika (orcid: 0000-0002-8834-9500)
Zhang, Eden (orcid: 0000-0003-0294-3734)
Rosello, Fernando (orcid: 0000-0003-3885-8777)
Iacono, Giulia (orcid: 0000-0002-1527-0754)
Tarasova, Ilariya (orcid: 0000-0002-0895-9385)
Chung, Jessica (orcid: 0000-0002-0627-0955)
Moffet, Joel
Gustafsson, Johan (orcid: 0000-0002-2977-5032)
Ding, Ke
Feher, Kristen
Perlaza-Jimenez, Laura (orcid: 0000-0002-8511-1134)
Crowe, Mark (orcid: 0000-0002-9514-2487)
Ma, Mengyao
Kandhari, Nitika (orcid: 0000-0002-0261-727X)
Williams, Sarah
Nelson, Tiffanie (orcid: 0000-0002-5341-312X)
Schreiber, Veronika (orcid: 0000-0001-6088-7828)
Pinzon Perez, William
Bioinformatics, Analysis, Statistics, R software, RStudio, Data visualisation
WORKSHOP: Introduction to Metabarcoding using QIIME2
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘Introduction to Metabarcoding using QIIME2’. This workshop took place on 22 February 2022.
Event description
Metabarcoding has revolutionised the study of biodiversity science. By combining DNA taxonomy...
Keywords: Bioinformatics, Analysis, Workflows, Microbial ecology, Metabarcoding, Microbiome
WORKSHOP: Introduction to Metabarcoding using QIIME2
https://zenodo.org/records/6350808
https://dresa.org.au/materials/workshop-introduction-to-metabarcoding-using-qiime2-d3a7ac82-63aa-47e6-9d8e-5126419f9982
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘Introduction to Metabarcoding using QIIME2’. This workshop took place on 22 February 2022.
Event description
Metabarcoding has revolutionised the study of biodiversity science. By combining DNA taxonomy with high-throughput DNA sequencing, it offers the potential to observe a larger diversity in the taxa within a single sample, rapidly expanding the scope of microbial analysis and generating high-quality biodiversity data.
This workshop will introduce the topic of metabarcoding and how you can use Qiime2 to analyse 16S data and gain simultaneous identification of all taxa within a sample. Qiime2 is a popular tool used to perform powerful microbiome analysis that can transform your raw data into publication quality visuals and statistics. In this workshop, using example 16S data from the shallow-water marine anemone E. diaphana, you will learn how to use this pipeline to run essential steps in microbial analysis including generating taxonomic assignments and phylogenic trees, and performing both alpha- and beta- diversity analysis.
Materials are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International agreement unless otherwise specified and were current at the time of the event.
Files and materials included in this record:
Event metadata (PDF): Information about the event including, description, event URL, learning objectives, prerequisites, technical requirements etc.
Index of training materials (PDF): List and description of all materials associated with this event including the name, format, location and a brief description of each file.
Schedule (PDF): A breakdown of the topics and timings for the workshop
Materials shared elsewhere:
This workshop follows the tutorial ‘Introduction to metabarcoding with QIIME2’ which has been made publicly available by Melbourne Bioinformatics.
https://www.melbournebioinformatics.org.au/tutorials/tutorials/qiime2/qiime2/
Melissa Burke (melissa@biocommons.org.au)
Dungan, Ashley (orcid: 0000-0003-0958-2177)
Philip, Gayle (orcid: 0000-0002-2671-5093)
Perry, Andrew (orcid: 0000-0001-9256-6068)
Ismail, Rania
Geissler, Laura
Tandon, Kshitij (orcid: 0000-0003-3022-0808)
Makunin, Igor
Bioinformatics, Analysis, Workflows, Microbial ecology, Metabarcoding, Microbiome
WORKSHOP: Hybrid de novo genome assembly
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘Hybrid de novo genome assembly’. This workshop took place on 7 October 2021.
Workshop description
It’s now easier than ever to assemble new reference genomes thanks to hybrid genome assembly approaches...
Keywords: Galaxy Australia, Bioinformatics, Analysis, Workflows, Genomics, Genome assembly, De novo assembly
WORKSHOP: Hybrid de novo genome assembly
https://zenodo.org/records/5781781
https://dresa.org.au/materials/workshop-hybrid-de-novo-genome-assembly-714004ba-0348-47c8-a68f-038a1f8ccfb1
This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘Hybrid de novo genome assembly’. This workshop took place on 7 October 2021.
Workshop description
It’s now easier than ever to assemble new reference genomes thanks to hybrid genome assembly approaches which enable research on organisms for which reference genomes were not previously available. These approaches combine the strengths of short (Illumina) and long (PacBio or Nanopore) read technologies, resulting in improved assembly quality.
In this workshop we will learn how to create and assess genome assemblies from Illumina and Nanopore reads using data from a Bacillus Subtilis strain. We will demonstrate two hybrid-assembly methods using the tools Flye, Pilon, and Unicycler to perform assembly and subsequent error correction. You will learn how to visualise input read sets and the assemblies produced at each stage and assess the quality of the final assembly.
All analyses will be performed using Galaxy Australia, an online platform for biological research that allows people to use computational data analysis tools and workflows without the need for programming experience.
This workshop is presented by the Australian BioCommons and Melbourne Bioinformatics with the assistance of a network of facilitators from the national Bioinformatics Training Cooperative.
Materials are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International agreement unless otherwise specified and were current at the time of the event.
Files and materials included in this record:
Event metadata (PDF): Information about the event including, description, event URL, learning objectives, prerequisites, technical requirements etc.
Index of training materials (PDF): List and description of all materials associated with this event including the name, format, location and a brief description of each file.
Schedule (PDF): A breakdown of the topics and timings for the workshop
Materials shared elsewhere:
This workshop follows the tutorial ‘Hybrid genome assembly - Nanopore and Illumina’ developed by Melbourne Bioinformatics.
https://www.melbournebioinformatics.org.au/tutorials/tutorials/hybrid_assembly/nanopore_assembly/
Melissa Burke (melissa@biocommons.org.au)
Hall, Grace (orcid: 0000-0002-5105-8347)
Morgan, Steven (orcid: 0000-0001-6038-6126)
Makunin, Igor
Galaxy Australia, Bioinformatics, Analysis, Workflows, Genomics, Genome assembly, De novo assembly