You told us what you wanted to learn, and we listened. Thanks to everyone who participated in our poll to determine our new online bioinformatics curriculum. We’re happy to announce four free courses available to users of varying experience levels. The online classes will expand the knowledge and skills of biomedical researchers and bioinformaticians alike.
Drug Discovery
How can you nearly double the chance of a drug’s clinical success? Incorporate genomics data from the start. This promising strategy does not come without its challenges, however.
This half-day course, which is designed for all levels of expertise, will provide hands-on experience of the DNAnexus Titan Platform and show you how to bridge the gaps between expression datasets, drug effectiveness, and genetic variation. You will be able to explore secondary RNAseq analysis of cancer cell lines exposed to various levels of certain drugs, as well as variant calling and tertiary analysis in those cell lines. We will also share some prototype custom workflows with Jupyter Notebooks.
For an introduction to incorporating both genomic and detailed clinical data for drug discovery, check out this previous virtual webinar from our Bio-IT World series.
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. PT
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How to Efficiently Build Apps/Workflows and Run Analyses on DNAnexus Titan
Curious about best practices for app(let) and workflow building on the DNAnexus Titan Platform? This workshop will walk you through how to implement apps and workflows on Titan, as well as how to optimize them in the cloud. You will learn best practices, patterns to avoid, and be provided with useful templates and code snippets to kickstart your app development. By the end of the workshop, you will have built an optimized executable that runs a complex pipeline efficiently and securely. We will also teach you how to use the Smart Reuse feature to accelerate development and iterations.
Friday, May 15, 2020
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. PT
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Complex Genotype/Phenotype Analysis
Combining large cohorts of deeply phenotyped individuals with their genomic data is useful in a wide range of applications, including the development of companion diagnostics, patient stratification, and clinical trial recruitment. But finding those links between genetic markers and the end phenotype can be difficult.
Our second half-day course designed for all levels of expertise will teach you to ‘slice and dice’ cohorts for rapid hypothesis testing — no coding required. It will take you from Graphical User Interface exercises to more technical Command Line applications, and cover mutation analysis on WGS data, generating clusters of SNPs that are drug responsive, and validating hypotheses with pre-existing RNAseq analysis on Jupyter Notebooks.
NOTE: Attendees will need to preregister for a DNAnexus account and login to the appropriate org/project prior to entering the course. Instructions will be sent ahead of time.
Tuesday, May 19th, 2020
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. PT
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Using Docker and WDL for App and Workflow Development
Do you have a library of existing tools produced and maintained by internal teams or third party groups that you’d like to run on our platform? DNAnexus supports Docker containers and WDL, allowing the easy import of existing tools and workflows into DNAnexus Titan or Apollo Platforms, and this course will show you how to do so. Learn how to use public Docker containers as part of your apps and how to run WDL workflows, with hands-on time for an exploration of the DNAnexus Apollo Platform. We will provide some sample .wdl workflows that can be modified, or simply deployed onto DNAnexus Apollo, and you will be able to work with DNAnexus staff to efficiently deploy your pipelines.
NOTE: Attendees will need to preregister for a DNAnexus Apollo account ahead of the workshop and basic exposure to Docker and WDL and/or watch DNAnexus Docker/WDL webinars, including ‘Using WDL to Develop Locally and Scale to the Cloud’
Thursday, May 21, 2020
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. PT
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