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Course at Basel, Switzerland: Introduction to Bayesian Statistics with R

This 2-day course will introduce participants to the core concepts of Bayesian statistics through lectures and practical exercises. The exercises will be implemented in the widely used R programming language and the Rstan library. They will enable participants to use standard Bayesian statistical tools and interpret their results.

Registration deadline: April 22, 2024 or as soon as the course is full

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Course at Luxembourg: Train the Trainer

This ELIXIR Train the Trainer (TtT) course is aimed at everyone who is interested in becoming a better teacher. In particular, this training is aimed at those who want to become a experienced ELIXIR instructor, run workshops and develop training materials. You don’t currently have to be an instructor or a teacher to attend this workshop, but you will be expected to be willing and committed to becoming one and to improve your teaching techniques.

Date: 3-5 July

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Course at Pilsen, Czech Republic: SUMMER SCHOOL OF SINGLE CELL, FROM THE LAB TO DATA ANALYSIS

We are inviting you to join our unique Single-cell summer school which covers all important steps during immune cell processing, sample preparation for single-cell sequencing and data analysis. This eight days intensive hands-on school focuses on experiment design, sample selection and preparation, quality control, sequencing, understanding NGS data formats, sequence editing, read mapping, handling potential problems and finally data interpretation.

Registration deadline: 5th of May 2024.

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Webinar by EMBL-EBI: Bioinformatic approaches to understand the role of the human microbiome in health and disease

This webinar will provide an overview of current metagenomic approaches to study the human microbiome and introduce several statistical methods that can be used to link its composition and function to different human phenotypes and populations. This webinar is suitable for those interested in studying the microbiomes of any environment or host. Although the presentation will be focused on the human microbiome, the methods and techniques discussed will also be applicable to other microbial ecosystems. No prior knowledge of bioinformatics is required, but undergraduate level knowledge of biology would be useful.

Date & Time: Mar 6, 2024 05:30 PM

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