Feb 4-5, 2019
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Instructors: Taylor Reiter, Sébastien Vigneau
Helpers: Zhaorong Li
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.
For more information on what we teach and why, please see our paper "Good Enough Practices for Scientific Computing".
Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers. You don't need to have any previous knowledge of the tools that will be presented at the workshop.
Where: Room 109AB, 72 E. Concord St., Boston, MA. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.
When: Feb 4-5, 2019. Add to your Google Calendar.
Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below). They are also required to abide by Data Carpentry's Code of Conduct.
Accessibility: We are committed to making this workshop accessible to everybody. The workshop organizers have checked that:
Materials will be provided in advance of the workshop and large-print handouts are available if needed by notifying the organizers in advance. If we can help making learning easier for you (e.g. sign-language interpreters, lactation facilities) please get in touch (using contact details below) and we will attempt to provide them.
Contact: Please email tereiter@ucdavis.edu or sebastien.vigneau@gmail.com for more information.
Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.
Morning | Project organization and management |
09:00 | Welcome and workshop introductions |
09:30 | Data Tidiness |
10:00 | Planning for NGS Projects |
10:30 | Examining Data on the NCBI SRA Database |
10:45 | Coffee |
Mid-Morning | Introduction to cloud computing for genomics: Part I |
11:00 | Why of cloud computing |
11:05 | Logging onto Cloud |
11:15 | Fine tuning your Cloud Setup |
12:00 | Lunch break |
Afternoon | Introduction to the command line |
1:00 | Introducing the Shell |
1:15 | Navigating Files and Directories |
13:45 | Working with Files and Directories |
14:30 | Coffee |
14:45 | Redirection |
15:30 | Project Organization |
16:15 | Wrap-up |
16:30 | END |
Morning | Data wrangling and processing |
09:00 | Background and Metadata |
09:15 | Assessing Read Quality |
10:30 | Coffee |
10:45 | Trimming and Filtering |
12:00 | Lunch break |
13:00 | Variant Calling Workflow |
14:30 | Coffee |
14:45 | Automating a Variant Calling Workflow |
Afternoon | Introduction to cloud computing for genomics: Part II |
15:45 | Which Cloud for my data? |
16:15 | Wrap-up |
16:30 | END |
We will use this collaborative document for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.
To participate in a Data Carpentry workshop, you will need access to the software described below. In addition, you will need an up-to-date web browser.
We maintain a list of common issues that occur during installation as a reference for instructors that may be useful on the Configuration Problems and Solutions wiki page.
Bash is a commonly-used shell that gives you the power to do simple tasks more quickly.
cmd
and press [Enter])setx HOME "%USERPROFILE%"
SUCCESS: Specified value was saved.
exit
then pressing [Enter]This will provide you with both Git and Bash in the Git Bash program.
The default shell in all versions of macOS is Bash, so no
need to install anything. You access Bash from the Terminal
(found in
/Applications/Utilities
).
See the Git installation video tutorial
for an example on how to open the Terminal.
You may want to keep
Terminal in your dock for this workshop.
The default shell is usually Bash, but if your
machine is set up differently you can run it by opening a
terminal and typing bash
. There is no need to
install anything.