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2026

Event type Name Date Time Location
How to effectively use LLMs and coding agents for bioinformatics March 12 11:00AM-12:00PM Virtual
Programming and Pizza March 11 4:00PM-6:00PM Northwest Building B227.45
Command Line 101: SLURM and job management tips March 6 11:00AM-12:00PM Virtual
Research Services Showcase March 5 10:00AM-4:00PM Virtual
Command Line 101: Git/GitHub on the cluster and on your computer February 26 11:00AM-12:00PM Virtual
Command Line 101: Integrating your local and cluster compute environments February 19 11:00AM-12:00PM Virtual
Command Line 101: Tips & tricks for aspiring power users February 12 11:00AM-12:00PM Virtual
Programming and Pizza February 11 4:00PM-6:00PM Northwest Building B227.45
Command Line 101: What's the deal with directories? February 5 11:00AM-12:00PM Virtual

2025

Event type Name Date Time Location
Programming and Pizza December 10 4:00PM-6:00PM Northwest Building B227.45
Population Genomics: Getting started with SNPArcher December 10 11:00AM-12:00PM Virtual
Introduction to Genome Annotation December 3 12:00PM-1:00PM Virtual
DNA sequencing with long reads November 19 11:00AM-1:00PM Virtual
Introduction to Nextflow November 13 and November 20 9:30AM-12:30PM Northwest Building 453
Programming and Pizza November 12 4:00PM-6:00PM Northwest Building B227.45
Introduction to single-cell RNA-seq October 29 and November 5 12:00PM-1:00PM Virtual
Introduction to R October 14-23, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30AM-12:30PM Northwest Building 453
Programming and Pizza October 8 4:00PM-6:00PM Northwest Building B227.45
Introduction to Snakemake September 30 and October 7 9:30AM-12:30PM Northwest Building 453
Basics of git and GitHub using GitHub Desktop September 23 12:00PM-1:00PM Virtual
Introduction to Python Intensive September 2-18, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30AM-12:30PM Northwest Building 453
Programming and Pizza September 10 4:00PM-6:00PM Northwest Building B227.45
The Baton Pass: Data onboarding and offboarding August 27 11:00AM-1:00PM Virtual
Programming and Pizza July 9 4:00PM-6:00PM Northwest Building B227.45
Programming and Pizza June 11 4:00PM-6:00PM Northwest Building B227.45
Programming and Pizza May 14 4:00PM-6:00PM Northwest Building B227.45
Dataverse step-by-step for biology: how to archive & publish your data May 12 1:00PM-3:00PM Northwest Building 453
The Baton Pass: preparing your data for the hand-off April 28 1:00PM-2:00PM Northwest Building 453
The Baton Pass: preparing your data for the hand-off April 21 1:00PM-2:00PM Northwest Building 453
Programming and Pizza April 9 4:00PM-6:00PM Northwest Building B227.45
Installing & Managing software (Conda; Containers) March 26 11:00AM-12:00PM Hybrid
Introduction to scRNA analysis March 12 11:00AM-12:00PM Hybrid
Introduction to Genome Annotation March 5 11:00AM-12:00PM Hybrid
Version Control and Collaboration using git/GitHub (Love Data Month) February 27 10:00AM-12:00PM Virtual
Version Control and Collaboration using git/GitHub (Love Data Month) February 25 10:00AM-12:00PM In person
Publishing your data analysis on GitHub (Love Data Month) February 20 10:00AM-12:00PM Virtual
Publishing your data analysis on GitHub (Love Data Month) February 18 10:00AM-12:00PM In person
Data Visualization Spa (Love Data Month) February 10-14 By appointment In person; 30 min consultations
Introduction to Python Intensive January 7-23, Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30AM-12:30PM Northwest Building 453

2024

Event type Name Date Time Location
SNPArcher Tutorial - A Snakemake workflow for variant calling in non-model species December 11 9:30-10:30AM Northwest Building 453
SNPArcher Tutorial - A Snakemake workflow for variant calling in non-model species December 10 12:15-1:15PM Northwest Building 453
Scaling SLURM on the HPC cluster and benchmarking December 4 12:15-1:15PM Northwest Building 453
Scaling SLURM on the HPC cluster and benchmarking December 3 9:30-10:30AM Northwest Building 453
Introduction to Single-cell RNA Analysis November 20 12:15-1:15PM Northwest Building 453
Introduction to Single-cell RNA Analysis November 19 9:30-10:30AM Northwest Building 453
Workflow Management and Nextflow Demonstration November 13 12:15-1:15PM Northwest Building 453
Workflow Management and Nextflow Demonstration November 12 9:30-10:30AM Northwest Building 453
Introduction to Genome Annotation November 6 12:15-1:15PM Northwest Building 453
Introduction to Genome Annotation November 5 9:30-10:30AM Northwest Building 453
Data Visulization with R and ggplot October 30 12:15-1:15PM Northwest Building 453
Data Visulization with R and ggplot October 29 9:30-10:30AM Northwest Building 453
Data Wrangling with R and tidyverse October 23 12:15-1:15PM Northwest Building 453
Data Wrangling with R and tidyverse October 22 9:30-10:30AM Northwest Building 453
Submitting your first SLURM script or job array October 16 12:15-1:15PM Northwest Building 453
Submitting your first SLURM script or job array October 15 9:30-10:30AM Northwest Building 453
Installing and Managing Software (conda, containers) October 9 9:30-10:30AM Northwest Building 453
Installing and Managing Software (conda, containers) October 8 12:15-1:15PM Northwest Building 453
Git and GitHub Introduction October 2 12:15-1:15PM Northwest Building 453
Git and GitHub Introduction October 1 9:30-10:30AM Northwest Building 453
Project organization & Data management September 25 12:15-1:15PM Northwest Building 453
Project organization & Data management September 24 9:30-10:30AM Northwest Building 453
Introduction to Python Intensive August 28, September 5, 12, and 19 10:00AM-1:00PM day 1; 2:00-5:00PM days 2-4 In person

2023

Event type Name Date Time Location
Bioinformatics tips and tricks November 8, 9, 15, and 17 9:30AM-12:30PM In person - Various locations
Bioinformatics tips and tricks March 22, 23, 29, 30 9:30AM-12:30PM In person - Various locations
Introduction to R March 1, 2, 8, and 9 9:30AM-12:30PM In person - Various locations

2020

Event type Name Date Time Location
Data Wrangling and Visualization in Python January 28 and 30 9:30AM-12:00PM In person
Introduction to Python January 21-24 9:30AM-12:30PM In person
Introduction to R January 13-16 9:30AM-12:30PM In person

2019

Event type Name Date Time Location
Read mapping and variant calling November 19 and 21 9:30AM-12:30PM In person
RNA-seq differential expression analysis in R November 12 and 14 9:30AM-12:30PM In person
Introduction to Bioinformatics (tips and tricks) November 6 and 8 9:00AM-12:00PM In person
Bioinformatics nanocourse* August 12-22 NA In person
Read mapping and variant calling March 26 10:00AM-4:00PM In person
Differential expresssion with RNA-seq March 13 10AM-4PM In person
de novo transcriptome assembly February 28 NA In person
Python on Odyssey February 22 NA In person
Introduction to R February 4, 7, 11, and 14 NA In person

*2019 Bioinformatics nanocourse topics

Week 1: Introduction to R (Mon-Wed) and Introduction to Python (Wed-Fri, Northwest Building B108)

Week 2: Introduction to Bioinformatics (Monday, Lamont Library B-30), Population Genetics (Tuesday, Biolabs 1058), RNA-seq (Wednesday, Lamont Library B-30), and single-cell analysis (Thursday, Lamont Library B-30)

2018

Event type Name Date Time Location
Read mapping and variant calling December 4 10:00AM-4:00PM In person
Differential expression with bulk RNA-seq November 13 10:00AM-4:00PM In person
Python on Odyssey October 16 10:00AM-4:00PM In person
Introduction to R September 25 and 27; October 2 and 4 1:00PM-4:00PM In person
Bioinformatics nanocourse* August 6-10 9:00AM-5:00PM In person
Introduction to R June 4-7 10:00AM-1:00PM In person
Peak calling May 1 10:00AM-3:00PM In person
Read mapping and variant calling April 3 10:00AM-3:00PM In person
Differential Expression with RNA-seq March 20 10:00AM-3:00PM In person
Genome Tips and Tricks March 6 10:00AM-3:00PM In person
Python on Odyssey February 27 10:00AM-3:00PM In person
Data Visualization with R February 13 10:00AM-3:00PM In person
Intermediate R February 6 10:00AM-3:00PM In person
Introduction to R January 30 10:00AM-3:00PM In person

*2018 Bioinformatics nanocourse topics

Introduction to R, Introduction to Unix, Introduction to the Odyssey cluster, Functional Genomics, Comparative and Population Genomics

2017

Event type Name Date Time Location
Read Mapping and Variant Analysis December 5 10:00AM-3:00PM Northwest Building Room 453
Introduction to RNA-seq differential expression analysis November 14 10:00AM-3:00PM Northwest Building Room 453
De novo transcriptome assembly and annotation November 7 10:00AM-3:00PM Northwest Building Room 453
Python on Odyssey October 24 10:00AM-3:00PM Northwest Building Room 453
Data Visualization with R October 10 10:00AM-3:00PM Northwest Building Room 453
Intermediate R October 3 10:00AM-3:00PM Northwest Building Room 453
Introduction to R September 26 10:00AM-3:00PM Northwest Building Room 453