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DESCRIPTION:# Overview\n\n### Duration:\n\n2 weeks\, 5 hours per week **Fre
 e Certificate of Achievement available** on satisfactory completion\n\n###
  Start Date:\n\nThe course is run ‘live’ for 3 weeks from the start da
 te above. Once this period is over there will be no live monitoring of the
  forums\, but you can still join and complete the course during the remain
 ing period.\n\n### Why join this course?\n\nBioinformatics is a rapidly gr
 owing academic field\, and one that promises to change how we analyse and 
 compare biological data.\n\nOn this course\, you’ll get familiar with Li
 nux – the operating system often used to access and analyse biological d
 ata. You’ll come away able to navigate it using the command line\, under
 standing how to write scripts and prepare data files for further analysis 
 and visualisation.\n\n### Who is this course for?\n\nThis course will appe
 al to students\, biologists\, and research scientists with an interest in 
 bioinformatics.\n\nLearners are expected to have some knowledge of or expe
 rience with life sciences\, but no prior knowledge of computing or bioinfo
 rmatics is expected. There are no formal prerequisites.\n\n# Programme\n\n
 ### Course start dates\n\nThis course will be repeated twice a year.\n\n##
 # What topics will you cover?\n\n\n* What is Linux? Why Linux for biologis
 ts?\n* The Linux file system and navigating around it via the command line
 \n* Manipulation and searching of data files using the command line to acc
 ess useful biological data\n* The basics of writing Bash scripts and its u
 se for process automation\n* Guidelines and recommendations for best pract
 ice preparation of data files under Linux for exporting to other environme
 nts (use of R for further analysis and visualisation)\n* Exercises on biol
 ogical data using different case scenarios\n\n### What will you achieve?\n
 \nBy the end of the course\, you‘ll be able to...\n\n* identify main cha
 racteristics of Linux and its use in biology\n* describe the structure of 
 a Linux file system\n* use Linux commands to navigate the file system\n* p
 erform Linux commands to manipulate and interrogate biological data files\
 n* prepare biological data files under Linux for exporting into other envi
 ronments such as R\n* write and execute simple shell scripts in order to a
 utomate processing of data\n\n# Educators\n\n## Lead Educators\n\n### Mart
 in Aslett\n\nI am the IT Manager for the Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced C
 ourses and Scientific Conferences team. My interests lie in bioinformatics
  and its application to microbial genomics.\n\n### Fatma Guerfali\n\nResea
 rcher at Institut Pasteur in Tunis and Trainer in Bioinformatics. Passiona
 te about data analysis and visualization for pathogens related Genomics an
 d Transcriptomics\n\n### Victoria Offord\n\nAs a Prinicipal Bioinformatici
 an in Experimental Cancer Genetics at the Wellcome Sanger Institute\, I de
 velop and run pipelines for saturation mutagenesis\, CRISPR screens\, RNA-
 Seq and variant calling.\n\n### Mark Sheppard\n\nI am the Assistant IT Man
 ager for the Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses and Scientific Confer
 ences team. My interests include machine learning and coding.\n\n# What's 
 Included\n\nWellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses and Scientific Confere
 nces are offering everyone who joins this course a free digital upgrade\, 
 so that you can experience the full benefits of studying online for free. 
 This means that you get:\n\n* Unlimited access to this course\n* Includes 
 any articles\, videos\, peer reviews and quizzes\n* Tests to validate your
  learning\n* A PDF Certificate of Achievement to prove your success when y
 ou’re eligible\n\n
SUMMARY:Bioinformatics for Biologists: An Introduction to Linux\, Bash Scri
 pting\, and R
URL;VALUE=URI:https://coursesandconferences.wellcomegenomecampus.org/our-ev
 ents/bioinformatics-for-biologists-feb21/
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