Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics
This is the first post in another series of posts that
contain training materials recommended by the Bioinformatics Support Network. Each post will contain recommendations for
online educational opportunities in areas such as bioinformatics, data science,
computer science and general health and wellbeing. The list of recommendations from the network was
provided by Miles Buchwaldt. I’ve
reorganized and reformatted the list to make it easier to present in a blog
format.
Today’s post contains suggested resources for learning in
the area of bioinformatics.
Plant Bioinformatic Methods Specialization
The Plant Bioinformatics Specialization on Coursera
introduces core bioinformatic competencies and resources, such as NCBI's
Genbank, Blast, multiple sequence alignments, phylogenetics in Bioinformatic
Methods I, followed by protein-protein interaction, structural bioinformatics
and RNA-seq analysis in Bioinformatic Methods II. In Plant Bioinformatics we
cover 33 plant-specific online tools from genome browsers to transcriptomic
data mining to promoter/network analyses and others.
Antimicrobial resistance - theory and methods
The course will cover the topics related to antimicrobial
resistance with basic definitions and overview on antimicrobials their use and
the emergence and spread of resistance. The course will guide you through the
concepts and the importance of resistance spread and dissemination and how that
happens. It will show you how bacteria become resistant and which mechanisms
they might use for this. And as part of the course you will also receive some
training in methods for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) and
detection of specific resistance in the microbiological laboratories with the
basic methods available and with focus on the obtention of good quality results
which can be interpreted and used for different purposes. Additionally, it will
show you how to use genomic analysis tools to analyze whole genome sequencing
data to detect resistance genes (and or other genes of interest) in a simple
and easy way using online tools freely available.
Whole genome sequencing of bacterial genomes -
tools and applications
The course will give the learners a basis to understand and
be acquainted with WGS applications in surveillance of bacteria including
species identification, typing and characterization of antimicrobial resistance
and virulence traits as well as plasmid characterization. It will also give the
opportunity to learners to learn about online tools and what they can be used
for through demonstrations on how to use some of these tools and exercises to
be solved by learners with use of freely available WGS analysis tools .
Metagenomics applied to surveillance of
pathogens and antimicrobial resistance
In this course, we teach about the potential of
metagenomics for surveillance and give the learners an overview of the steps
and considerations in a metagenomics study.
Bioinformatics.ca / Canadian Bioinformatics
Workshop Series
Recordings and workshop materials of past CBW workshops
Bioinformatics Training Resources for
Experimentalists (and Friends)
List of bioinformatics training and courses curated by
Jason de Koning (University of Calgary)
EMBL-EBI
Videos on various bioinformatics topics
A comprehensive list of Data Science and
Bioinformatics eLearning resources compiled by Martin Gauthier: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17Q0fdwNybYpiDUGOU7YSLC0zU4npdsClVMOmIaq3_IA/edit?usp=sharing
A collection of over 75 hours of AWS and 50
hours of Azure training material shared by Glen Newton: https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2020/03/vpn-down-fill-your-time-and-brain-with.html
And
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