Data Carpentry UCLouvain

basic bioinformatics
ELIXIR
live training

Data Carpentry UCLouvain

Target Audience:
All VIB staff
Location:

Brussels

General context

Organised by our ELIXIR partner UCLouvain, the goal of this workshop is to initiate wet-lab scientists, such as biomedical researchers, to reproducible data analysis with R. The Data organisation in spreadsheets section will focus on tabular data structure and management. We will then introduce OpenRefine and how it can be used for initial data exploration and cleaning. The biggest part of the workshop will focus on R. We will start with a general presentation to the RStudio software, a popular interface and editor for R, will introduce the basics of R, and then move on to analysing data in tabular format, as defined in the first section. We will focus on dplyr and ggplot2, two widely used packages for data manipulation and analysis, and data visualisation.

Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

More information on objectives, schedule, setup and registration see https://uclouvain-cbio.github.io/2019-05-20-UCLouvain/

Contact: Please email contact-cbio@uclouvain.be for more information.

Helpers: Axelle Loriot, Kevin Missault, Theo Killian, Christof De Bo

Trainers

Marco Chiapello

Senior Research Scientist at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

Alexander Botzki

Alexander Botzki is heading the Technology training unit at VIB, the Flemish Institute of Biotechnology, Belgium. The main mission of this unit is providing technology training in domains of VIB Technologies, Bioinformatics & AI, Software Development, and Research Data Management. Between 2014 and 2022, he was head of the VIB Bioinformatics Core. From September 2009 to July 2014, he was responsible for the roll-out of E-Notebook (electronic lab notebook) to VIB's researchers within 75 research groups.

Before joining VIB, Alexander worked on various computational biology projects for Algonomics (bought by Lonza, 2008-2009) and DevGen (now Syngenta, from 2006-2008). During Alexander's PostDoc at Sanofi Aventis in Strasbourg, he executed various virtual screening campaigns on the compound selection of the merged enterprise. He received his doctoral degree with the group of Prof. Dr. Armin Buschauer (University of Regensburg, Germany) on 'Structure-based design of hyaluronidase inhibitors'.

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Practical info

Location & Venue
Woluwe - UCLouvain

Avenue Emmanuel Mounier
1200 Woluwe
Belgium

Public transport
Woluwe - UCLouvain
Route description
Woluwe - UCLouvain
Venue contact
Woluwe - UCLouvain