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Advanced MPI @ EPCC at Milton Keynes

Advanced MPI ARCHER, the UK's national supercomputing service, offers training in software development and high-performance computing to scientists and researchers across the UK. As part of our training service we will be running a 2-day Advanced MPI training session. Trainer David Henty David...

Added to TeSS 1 day ago
Intel MIC Programming Workshop

  The course discusses Intel’s Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture and programming models for Intel manycore processors in order to enable programmers to achieve good performance of their applications. The course will mainly concentrate on techniques relevant for the latest Intel® Xeon®...

Added to TeSS 1 day ago
Metabolomics data analysis in the Cloud: Live Online Training

Between 6-8th June 2018, the PhenoMeNal project will be hosting Live Online Training, via a series of live webinars, in which participants will become familiar with the open-source tools and workflows in the PhenoMeNal infrastructure. PhenoMeNal is a comprehensive and standardised...

Added to TeSS 1 day ago
Metabolomics data analysis in the Cloud: Live Online Training

Between 6-8th June 2018, the PhenoMeNal project will be hosting Live Online Training, via a series of live webinars, in which participants will become familiar with the open-source tools and workflows in the PhenoMeNal infrastructure. PhenoMeNal is a comprehensive and standardised...

Added to TeSS 1 day ago
Data Organization in Spreadsheets for Social Scientists: Instructor Notes

The challenge with this lesson is that the instructor’s version of the spreadsheet software is going to look different than about half the room’s. It makes it challenging to show where you can find menu options and navigate through. Instead discuss the concepts of quality control, and how things...

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Advanced Technical Presentation 3: Persuasive Speaking

Overview You have 10 minutes to speak. You have 5 people listening to you. You have 1 chance to sell them your idea. And you're probably going to blow it. Not because your idea isn't innovative. Not because your plan isn't well thought out.

Added to TeSS 2 days ago
Accessing Expert‐Curated Pharmacological Data in the IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY

The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY is an expert‐curated, open‐access database of information on drug targets and the substances that act on them. This unit describes the procedures for searching and downloading ligand‐target binding data and for finding detailed annotations and the most...

Scientific topics: Immunology, Pharmacology

Added to TeSS 12 days ago
OpenRefine for Social Science Data: Instructor Notes

There is a separate file for the setup instructions for installing OpenRefine (setup). Introduction Working with OpenRefine Filtering and Sorting Examining Numbers in OpenRefine

Added to TeSS 18 days ago
Community analysis of amplicon sequencing data (16S rRNA)

This course introduces community analysis of amplicon sequencing data (16S rRNA). It covers preprocessing, taxonomic classification, and statistical analysis for marker gene studies. The user-friendly Chipster software is used in the exercises, so no Unix or R experience is required and the...

Added to TeSS 25 days ago
Virus detection using small RNA-seq

This course introduces the VirusDetect pipeline covering all the analysis steps and file formats. VirusDetect allows you to detect known viruses and identify news ones by sequencing small RNAs (siRNA) in host samples. siRNA sequences are assembled to contigs and compared to known virus sequences....

Scientific topics: RNA-Seq

Added to TeSS 25 days ago