Past CABANA workshops

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CABANA Virtual Workshop: Innovative methods for viral detection and discovery in genomic and metagenomic data

USP / FIOCRUZ Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil

08 Nov 2021

​​Emerging viruses can cause new diseases in humans and animals and proper epidemiological surveillance is essential to detect and characterize such viruses. Given the enormous impact of the COVID-19 pandemics, this course will cover the assembly of the SARS-CoV-2 genome from…

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CABANA workshop: Exploring biological networks and its application in health and disease

Center of Data and Knowledge Integration for Health - CIDACS, Instituto Gonçalo Moniz (IGM) - FIOCRUZ, Salvador, Brazil

04 May 2020

This workshop will introduce open-source tools for creating, visualizing and analysing biological networks oriented towards the study of pathogens. Training will be provided on computational tools and databases such as Reactome, Cytoscape, Gephi for graph visualization and…

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CABANA Workshop: Genotyping by Sequencing Applied to Plant Breeding

University of Costa Rica (UCR), San Jose, Costa Rica

06 Aug 2019

This workshop will provide training around the experimental design and multiple applications of Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS) in plants. In addition, detailed computational analysis of GBS data and resources will be explored. Genomic analysis tools for GBS, such as Tassel,…

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CABANA Virtual Workshop: Introducción a R y Bioconductor para análisis genómicos

Virtual format

08 Nov 2021

Este taller introducirá el lenguaje de programación de R, la utilización de la interfaz gráfica RStudio y el empleo de Bioconductor para trabajar con datos provenientes de bases de datos genómicos como Ensembl y Ensembl Genomes.
 

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CABANA Workshop: Managing a bioinformatics core facility

Fiocruz - Palácio Itaboraí, Petrópolis, Brazil

31 Mar 2020

This knowledge exchange workshop is an opportunity for managers of bioinformatics core facilities to learn from EMBL-EBI’s service teams, from each other, and from potential users of their services. These facilities play an essential role in enabling research in the molecular…

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CABANA Workshop: Genomic Analysis of Crop Biodiversity using R

LANGEBIO, Cinvestav, Irapuato, Mexico

25 Jun 2019

This course will provide training on using R in genomics applications for crop biodiversity. The first day will cover the basics of biodiversity and R, before analyzing various genomes to assess biodiversity. This will include hierarchical clustering, correlating genomic data…

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CABANA Workshop: Bioinformatics approaches to viruses and genomic surveillance

Virtual format

14 Feb 2022

This workshop will provide training on the use of bioinformatics tools to understand viral pathogens’ sequencing data. Trainees will receive training on viral genome assembly, comparative viral genomics, phylogenomics, metaviromics and downstream applications of this data in…

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CABANA Workshop: NGS analysis applied to virome sequencing in agricultural systems

University of Costa Rica (UCR), San José, Costa Rica

24 Feb 2020

Virome sequencing is a high throughput method to identify and classify communities of viruses, not only in plants but also animals and humans. We will focus on the sequencing of small-interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to discover the virus population in plant samples. The resulting…

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CABANA workshop: Introduction to R and Bioconductor for genomic analyses

LANGEBIO, Cinvestav, Irapuato, Mexico

21 May 2019

Bioinformatics is fast becoming an integral component of all biological projects. The deluge of genomic information has also opened up the possibility of asking new questions using only publicly available data and a personal computer. This course will go beyond bioinformatic…