Date: 10 - 21 June 2018

International course. The course is open for researchers at university or in industry such as PhD students, postdocs, group leaders, core facility staff and analysts.

Contact: RaukR@NBIS.se

Course description:
Join us in medieval Visby this June to improve your R skills and have a nice time!
In Life Science and Bioinformatics, R is increasingly being used to transform and analyse data, perform statistical analysis and produce publication-ready visualizations. This Summer course will focus on advanced R functionality, to increase the participants skillset and understanding of what is possible to do today.

You are very welcome to apply or see the homepage for more information. Please, help us spread the word to interested participants!

Guest speakers
Martin Morgan (Director at Bioconductor)
Paula Moraga (Lancaster Univ., RLadies)
Yhui Xie (RStudio)

Course content:
Reproducibility with R
Writing R packages
R scripts
S3, S4 and Reference Classes
Code debugging and optimization
R markdown
tidyverse
Bioconductor
ggplot2
Interactive plots
Statistics in R
Machine Learning
Shiny web applications
Working with maps
Area specific workshops (RNAseq, spatial stats etc)
Working with your own dataset

Course fee
Academic: 8500 SEK (Includes participation in all official activities and events, course materials, breakfast, lunch and accommodations).

Participants from outside of academia should contact us for a fee quote.

The fee does not include travel costs.

Important dates

Application open: March 17

Application deadline: April 15

Notification of acceptance/decline: April 25

Contact: RaukR@NBIS.se Course leaders: Marcin Kierczak and Sebastian DiLorenzo

Keywords: R-programming

City: Visby

Country: Sverige

Organizer: NBIS (National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden)

Target audience: Life Science Researchers

Event types:

  • Workshops and courses


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