Introduction to Peak Analysis workshop

July 30, 2025

Announcement for HBC’s Introduction to Peak Analysis workshop

This workshop will be held online on August 15th, 19th, and 22nd from 9:30 AM to 12PM each day. Participants are expected to attend all three sessions. This workshop also assumes that users have familiarity with ChIP-seq, CUT&RUN or ATAC-seq analyses and R programming.

Dates and Times:

Friday, August 15th: 9:30 AM - 12 PM noon
Tuesday, August 19th: 9:30 AM - 12 PM noon 
Friday, August 22nd: 9:30 AM - 12 PM noon

Where: Online (Zoom)

Workshop description: 

This multi-day hands-on workshop will provide students with a suite of tools and a basic workflow of how to handle data generated from peak calling algorithms. Specifically, the workshop will focus on taking BED file formats (i.e. narrowPeak) and identifying what these regions represent. In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn to:

  • Check their peak data for quality
  • Annotate peaks with genomic features of interest
  • Visualize peaks and their relationships to genomic features
  • Perform differential peak enrichment analysis
  • Perform functional analysis (such as over-representation analysis)

Course requirements:

  • This workshop requires registrants to have attended our Introduction to R workshop (or have a working knowledge of R). 
  • Mandatory attendance for all three classes
  • 3-5 hours of reading and exercises from selected lessons before each workshop session
  • Active participation during discussion sessions

Instruction will be mostly learner-centric. Online classes will be focused on exercises and discussion. Please make sure you take this into account when you sign up for the workshop!

 

Cost: 

Priority is given to Harvard Quad and DF/HCC researchers, who are subsidized for this workshop at a price of $65. Others interested in our workshops can find our prices here and should register below.

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

Eligibility:

Preference is given to Harvard-affiliated researchers who are:

  • At the Harvard Medical School in a lab on the Quad, with grants administered by HMS OR 
  • At the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, with grants administered by HMS Gordon Hall OR
  • An HMS graduate student OR 
  • A researcher with Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DFHCC)

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

NOTE: We do not record our training sessions.

Sponsored by the HMS Foundry & Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center