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EMBO Practical Course, Bioinformatics, large-scale data, at Shenzhen, China

Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:50:56 -0500

This international advanced course will provide training on bioinformatics and statistics methods for genomic research. It will give insight into how biological knowledge can be generated from high-throughput sequencing (DNA-Seq, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq) experiments and will illustrate how to analyze such data. The course covers both the underlying statistical and algorithmic concepts, and the practice of how to automate and code such analyses using the scripting language R.

17 Nov 2013 -22 Nov 2013

More at http://events.embo.org/13-large-scale-data/

Online Registration: https://www.conference-service.com/pc13-47/welcome.cgi

Best practices in bioinformatics training for life scientists

Jitendra Narayan — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:47:34 -0500

Among life scientists, from clinicians to environmental researchers, a common theme is the need not just to use, and gain familiarity with, bioinformatics tools and resources but also to understand their underlying fundamental theoretical and practical concepts.

Find the detail paper at http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/06/25/bib.bbt043.full

Address of the bookmark: http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/06/25/bib.bbt043.full

One page R survival guide !!

Rahul Nayak — Thu, 28 May 2015 21:10:12 -0500

There any many of the documents have been developed and tested by scientist around the world. I found this one really useful. The data used is available for download as data.zip.

Reference@http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/one-page-r-a-survival-guide-to-data-science-with-r

Templates for the Data Scientist
1. A Template for Preparing Data: *OnePageR - *R
2. A Template for Building Models: *OnePageR - *R
Getting Started as a Data Scientist
1. Getting Started with R and Rattle: *Lecture - *Laboratory
2. Introducing and Interacting with R: *Lecture - *Laboratory
3. BasicR - OnePage(R) - Writing R scripts
Dealing With Data
1. Read Data into R: *OnePageR - *R
2. Explore and Summarise Data: *OnePageR - *R
3. Transform Data: *OnePageR - *R
4. Dealing with Dates and Time: (PDF, R) Dates and Time
5. Visualising Data with GGPlot2: *OnePageR - *R
6. Visualising Data with Maps *OnePageR - *R
7. Spatial (R) Spatial Analysis
8. Handling Big Data *OnePageR - *R
Descriptive Analytics
1. Cluster Analysis: *Lecture - *OnePageR - *R
2. Association Analysis: *Lecture
Predictive Analytics
1. Decision Trees: *Lecture - *OnePageR - *R - *Rattle
2. Ensembles of Decision Trees: *Lecture - *OnePageR - *R
3. SVM (R)
4. KernLab (R)
5. NeuralNetworks (R)
6. NNet (R)
Model Delivery
1. Evaluating Models: *OnePageR - *R
2. Evaluation (R)
3. Scoring (R)
4. PMML (R) Exporting Models for Deployment
Advanced Topics
1. Text Mining: *OnePageR - *R
Advanced R Topics
1. Plots (PDF, R) Miscellaneous Plots
2. Functions (PDF, R) Writing Functions in R
3. Parallel (PDF, R) Parallel Execution
4. Packaging (R) Pulling it Together into a Package
5. Doing R with Style: *OnePageR - *R
6. Literate Data Mining with KnitR: *Lecture - *OnePageR - *

DBT – Bioinformatics Industrial Training Programme (BIITP) 2016 – 17

Jit — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 04:09:59 -0500

BIITP is a programme of Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, managed by Biotech Consortium India Limited (BCIL).The objective of BIITP is to provide an opportunity to bioinformatics students to acquire practical skills and experience by working on projects alongside industry experts as well as to provide an opportunity for the industry to identify potential employees.

DBT Invites online applications from the bioinformatics students and requisitions from biotech/bioinformatics companies.

Biotech Industry :

Biotech/Bioinformatics companies interested to provide hands on industrial training to the students of Bioinformatics under BIITP may apply online. The companies would have no obligation towards any payments to trainees. The companies would be paid bench fee to cover expenses towards training. Trainees would be provided to companies subject to availability.

Attn: Bioinformatics Students

Bioinformatics students interested in training in biotech / bioinformatics companies may apply online. Stipend of Rs. 10,000/- per month will be paid to candidates placed for training. The candidates will be selected for training through an interview.

Eligiblity :

a) B.E /B.Tech./M.Sc./M.Tech./Advanced Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics from an Indian recognized university with minimum 55% marks or equivalent grade at highest degree/diploma completed in the year 2015 or 2016 are only eligible to apply.

b) The Advanced Post Graduate diploma should be of at least one year duration after graduation.

c) Students whose result of last semester/final year is not declared can also apply mentioning their marks upto the semester/year upto which result declared. The final result with original mark sheet(s) of all the semesters/years will have to be produced at the time of interview.

Application Procedure :

The online application form is available below :

Application Form For Students (New User)

Requisition form for companies (New User)

Already registered User Click Here

The following documents are to be sent to Mr. Manoj Gupta, Manager, Biotech Consortium India Limited, 5th floor, Anuvrat Bhawan, 210, Deen Dayal UpadhyayaMarg, New Delhi-110002.

More at http://www.bcil.nic.in/biitp2016-17/index.asp

Bioinformatics in Africa: Part5 - Nigeria

BioStar — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 21:13:47 -0600

Covenant University (CU)Ota:
Covenant University (with her enriching and growing stateoftheart laboratories in the area of science and technology, arts, business and social sciences) is presently the Best University in Nigeria (Private University category), based on the recent overall rating just concluded by the Nigeria University Commission (NUC). Recently, Covenant University has initiated the establishment of a Centre for Applied Biotech, BioInformatics and Microbiology (CBBM) to be situated at the University. The institute has been designed to be a PublicPrivate Partnership for a productive synergy b/w Academia, Industry and Government. The whole concept is still evolving and more details will be release soon. As regards CBBM, a dedicated computing lab is in plan, but even our computing capacity is presently enormous. In the department of Computer and Information Sciences, we have more than 250 Pentium 4 PCs set aside for teaching and research purposes. Furthermore, we have several moderate speed PCs at the Postgraduate research lab and our engineering departments and units. Our wet lab facilities is presently minimal (basic for teaching), the Centre requirement as it touches the wetlaboratories is also set to upgrade this to basic tools expected at an international centre of learning.

University of Ibadan (UIB)Ibadan:
There has been significant increase in the number of bioinformatics activities in Nigeria (and West Africa) since 2003 when the program was initiated by the West African Biotechnology Workshops Series (WABWS, http://www.wabw.org) at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (in collaboration with the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI, http:/www.sanbi.ac.za). Workshops that were open to scientists from all African countries have seen a very high number of applications from scientists based in West Africa. The encouraging desire to acquire cuttingedge skills to computational process data and extract useful knowledge from genome projects led to the interest of the West African Biotechnology Workshops (WABW) to develop an agenda to address the bioinformatics skills gap among scientists in West Africa. An increased commitment from agencies like NEPAD would be required in the provision of infrastructure to establish and sustain regional and national networks.

University of Ilorin (UIL)Ilorin:
The University of Ilorin was established in 1976 by the Federal Government of Nigeria. Bioinformatics activities started at the University in February 2003 with the establishment of the West African Bioinformatics Research Initiative (WABRI). However, progress has been rather slow due to inadequate funding. We are mainly engaged in Bioinformatics training at the introductory level and proteomics studies on various species of malaria parasites. Recently, we became interested in comparative genome analysis of various species of Plasmodium and the comparison of chloroquine sensitive and chloroquine resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum. Other activities and areas of interest can be seen on our website, http://www.wabri.org, although not all our proposed interests have been fully implemented due to our level of funding.

Training:
The University of Ilorin has introduced M.Sc. and Ph.D. programmes in Computer Science (with options in Bioinformatics). The programme is based in the Department of Computer Science and emphasis is on the development of algorithms to solve problems in bioinformatics. The Covenant University offers M.Sc. and Ph.D in Computer Science with option in Bioinformatics (Computational Biology). Furthermore, through affiliated departments, the CBBM is been design to award Diploma and Degree certificates in Biotechnology.

Web sites and links: http://www.covenantuniversity.com http://www.run.edu.ng http://www.uniben.edu http://www.wabri.org http://www.wabw.org http://www.unilorin.edu.ng http://www.wabri.org http://www.asopah.org

Programming for Lovers !

BioStar — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 23:56:30 -0600

Programming for Lovers (P4❤️) is a free online course that teaches programming using the Go programming language by immersing learners in fun scientific applications.

Each chapter focuses on a single scientific problem and contains a core text accompanied by code alongs and autograded exercises.

You can meet Phillip Compeau in our intro video. Phillip has taught programming at Carnegie Mellon University for years and is a serial online education founder. He is thrilled to bring you this course.

Address of the bookmark: https://programmingforlovers.com/

Bioinformatics Training Material !

BioStar — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 11:26:18 -0500

Glittr is a curated list of bioinformatics training material.
All material is:

In a GitHub or GitLab repository
Free to use
Written in markdown or similar

NOTE: This list of courses is selected only based on the above criteria.
There are no checks on quality.

https://glittr.org/?per_page=25&sort_by=stargazers&sort_direction=desc

Address of the bookmark: https://glittr.org/?per_page=25&sort_by=stargazers&sort_direction=desc

List of universities offering Bachelor, Master or PhD bioinformatics degree in Malaysia

sahabuddin — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:34:02 -0500

Bioinformatics is a newly emerging interdisciplinary research area, which may be defined as the ―interface between biological and computational sciences. Most of the Bioinformatics work that is done can be described as analyzing biological data, although a growing number of projects deal with the organization of biological information. The global Bioinformatics industry has grown at a double-digit growth rate in the past and is expected to follow the same pattern in the next four years. US remains the largest market in the world, but Asia-Pacific countries, particularly India and China, are witnessing the fastest growth and are anticipated to emerge as the dominating forces in future. The Comparison of Bioinformatics Industry between Malaysia, India and other countries are discussed in this http://ijbssnet.com/journals/Vol.%202_No._10;_June_2011/11.pdf paper.

Bioinformatics is full of opportunities. The sector is poised to open new avenues for the other related sectors also. But the biggest opportunity area in the Bioinformatics market will be in the drug discovery sector. Reduction of both the cost and time taken to discover a new drug due to fast development in the Bioinformatics tools and software zone is also making drug discovery an attractive field to venture in. Malaysian bioinformatics growth and future are discuss in this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723929/ paper. Keeping all such inportance in mind, following universities in Malaysia offering bioinformatics cources:

3 program(s) at AIMST University, Malaysia

Master of Science in Biotechnology (MSc) - Bioinformatics by Research

Master of Science (M.Sc) in Medical Microbiology (Bioinformatics) by Research

Doctor of Philosophy in Biotechnology (PhD) - Bioinformatics by Research

1 program(s) at INTI International University and Colleges, Malaysia

American Degree Transfer Program (Biosciences) in Bioinformatics

3 program(s) at Management and Science University (MSU), Malaysia

Master in Bioinformatics (By Research)

PhD in Bioinformatics

Bachelor in Bioinformatics (Hons)

1 program(s) at Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia

Bachelor of Science (Honours) Bioinformatics

1 program(s) at Universiti Industri Selangor (UNISEL) Bestari Jaya Campus, Malaysia

Bachelor of Bioinformatics (Hons)

2 program(s) at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Malaysia

PhD - Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics (By Research)

MSc - Master of Science in Bioinformatics (By Research)

6 program(s) at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia

MSc - Master of Science in Bioinformatics by Research

Master of Science in Bioinformatics and System Biology by Research

Master of Science (M.Sc) in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (With Thesis)

PhD - Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics by Research

PhD - Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (With Thesis)

PhD - Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics and System Biology by Research

1 program(s) at Universiti Selangor (UNISEL), Malaysia

Bachelor of Bioinformatics (Hons)

3 program(s) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia

M.Sc - Master of Science (Bioscience) in Bioinformatics Research Group (BIRG) By Research

PhD - Doctor of Philosophy (Bioscience) in Bioinformatics Research Group (BIRG) By Research

Bachelor of Computer Science (BioInformatics)

4 program(s) at University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia

MSc - Master of Science in Bioinformatics by Research

Master in Bioinformatics by Coursework

PhD - Doctor of Philosophy in Bioinformatics by Research

Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Bioinformatics

3 program(s) at Perdana University, Malaysia

Master in Bioinformatics (By Research)

PhD in Bioinformatics

Bachelor in Bioinformatics (Hons)

3 program(s) at Monash University, Malaysia

Master in Bioinformatics (By Research)

PhD in Bioinformatics

Bachelor in Bioinformatics (Hons)

The real bioinformatics scope lies if there are research labs which work in this field. One has to take account of that. If so then try to get information of those labs and visit them to get a hang of the work they pursue. For detail Bioinformatics in Malaysia: Hope, Initiative, Effort, Reality, and Challenges are discussed in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723929/ paper.

Assistant Professor job recruitment in University of Pune on temporary basis

Mon, 11 Feb 2019 22:32:48 -0600

Assistant Professor job recruitment in University of Pune on temporary basis

No. of Post : 01

Department : Institute of Bioinformatics and Biotechnology

Qualification : (i) Good academic record as defined by the concerned University with at least 55% marks (or an equivalent grade in a point scale wherever grading system is followed) at the Master's degree level in a relevant subject from an Indian University, or an equivalent degree from an accredited foreign University. (ii) Besides fulfilling the above qualifications, the candidate must have cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by the UGC, CSIR or similar test accredited by the UGC like SLET / SET. (iii) Candidates, who are, or have been awarded a Ph.D. degree in accordance with the University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedures for award of Ph.D. Degree) Regulations, 2009, shall be exempted from the requirement of the minimum eligibility condition of NET/SLET/SET. (iv) NET/SLET/SET shall not be required for such Master's Degree Programmes in disciplines for which NET/SLET/SET accredited test is not conducted.

Pay Band : Rs. 15,600 - Rs. 39,100/- with AGP of Rs.6,000

Application Fee : Application fees of Rs. 600/- (for Open Category) and Rs. 300/- (for candidates belonging to reserved categories),should be paid by the Challan (at Bank of Maharashtra/HDFC Bank)

More at http://collegecirculars.unipune.ac.in/sites/documents/Job%20Openings/ATNF161%20IBB_05.022019.pdf

Two Faculty Positions at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Thu, 22 Oct 2020 04:53:12 -0500

The Department of Agronomy at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan,
invites applications for two full-time faculty positions beginning August
1, 2021 at the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or
Professor in Biometry and Bioinformatics and Plant Breeding and Genetics,
respectively.

A qualified candidate should hold a Ph.D. in a relevant field including
Agronomy, Statistics, Bioinformatics, Plant Breeding, Plant Genetics or
Quantitative Genetics. For the position in Biometry and Bioinformatics, the
applicants capable of teaching fundamental statistics/bioinformatics
courses or with experience in crop science are preferable; for Plant
Breeding and Genetics, the applicants capable of teaching fundamental plant
breeding courses, with experience in crop breeding, or training in
quantitative genetics are preferred.

The application package should include two letters of reference and five
printed copies of the following documents (1) curriculum vitae, (2)
publication list, (3) undergraduate and graduate transcripts if applying
for the Assistant Professorship, (4) a photocopy of the Ph.D. diploma, (5)
teaching plan and course outline or syllabus (6) research proposal, (7) a
cover letter indicating the rank to apply, and one representative original
research article which was published by the applicant being the 1st or
corresponding author in an SCI peer-reviewed journal within 5 years (after
August 1, 2016); a copy of doctoral dissertation can be the representative
article if applying for the Assistant Professorship; (8) reprints of the
selected publications published within 7 years (after August 1, 2014).

The application package should mail to the Chair, Dr. Li-yu Daisy Liu
(lyliu@ntu.edu.tw), in the Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan
University, No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, before
December 15, 2020 for full consideration.