Introduction to Variant Calling workshop September 17, 20, 24, 27

Registration link and more details about the workshop: https://tinyurl.com/HBC-VariantCalling

Dates and Times:

Tuesday, September 17^th: 9:30 AM - 12 PM
Friday, September 20^th : 9:30 AM - 12 PM
Tuesday, September 24^th : 9:30 AM - 12 PM
Friday, September 27^th : 9:30 AM - 12 PM

Where: In Person (Longwood Medical Area)

Workshop description: This **In-Person** hands-on Variant Analysis workshop is aimed at providing best practices for calling variants for paired normal/tumor datasets. Importantly, while this workshop focuses on calling variants in the context of paired tumor/normal samples, much of this workshop’s pipeline and discussion is adaptable to other types of variant calling applications. This workshop will demonstrate to participants how to take raw sequence reads and process them into a VCF file with annotated variants. Furthermore, the workshop ends with a tutorial for visualizing called variants within the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) and creating figures using cBioPortal. 

Prerequisites: This workshop requires registrants to have attended our Shell for Bioinformatics workshop (formerly called Introduction to Shell/HPC) or have working knowledge of Shell and High Performance Computing.

*** Instruction will be mostly learner-centric requiring workshop participants to spend between 3-5 hours on reading and exercises from selected lessons before each workshop session. In person classes will be focused on exercises and discussion. ***

Cost: $65 per participant.

Registration link and more details about the workshop: https://tinyurl.com/HBC-VariantCalling

Contact hbctraining@hsph.harvard.edu with any questions.