Venue: LANGEBIO, Cinvestav Libramiento Norte Carretera Leon Km 9.6

Region: Irapuato

Country: Mexico

Postcode: 36821

Target audience: The course is suitable for graduate students and young researchers with a background in biology who are keen to become proficient bioinformaticians within the fields of genomics and/or transcriptomics. We will start with the basics, so students with no prior programming knowledge are welcome. We have a number of Linux computers that you can use, and you can bring your own laptops*.  Please note this course will be taught in English, however the trainers are fluent in either Spanish or Portuguese, and can offer language support where feasible. A number of travel fellowships are available for this course - early-stage researchers and researchers from underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply for CABANA travel fellowships. You can apply for travel fellowships via the course application form. *If you bring your own laptop (any operating system is fine), you must have installed the following programs: R (at least version 3.5), the latest Rstudio and Bioconductor.  To download R please visit: https://www.r-project.org/ To download RStudio please visit: https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/ Bioconductor must be downloaded and installed via R, instructions on how to do this can be found here: https://www.bioconductor.org/install/

Capacity: 24