Online Hands-on Workshop for Analyzing and Visualizing Data with R

19/02/2021

The deadline for applications is 1^st March, 18:00 CET. Limited participants’ number.

The workshop/course is organized by Alex Tolios, Javier De Las Rivas, and Thomas Mohr.

 

Requirements for application:

• Basic knowledge of R, and
• You should have R & Rstudio installed
• You should have packages installed (which will be announced)

Program:

Day 1: Introduction and data preprocessing
– General introduction to GNU R
- using GNU R as a calculator
- data types
- assigning objects
- using functions.
– A ‘shallow in-depth view’ of data frames
- using data frames to store data and other things
- basic data frame operations
- selecting columns filtering rows based on conditions
- manipulating data in data frames

Day 2: Plotting using the grammar of graphics
– General introduction on how to use the ggplot2 library
- general plot aesthetics
- dimensionality using ggplot
– Useful examples of generating specific plots
- histograms
- boxplots
- scatterplots
– Combining multiple elements into a single plot
- overlay plots using different elements
- multi-facetted plots
- combining different plots

Day 3: Analysis of omics data with R
– From raw data to a dataset: Quality Control, Pre-processing
– Use of Packages for transcriptomic data analysis
- LIMMA
- DESeq2
– Proteomics Approaches

Day 4: Using R to query and explore genomic and proteomic databases
– Query and explore GEO genomic database
– Query and explore HPA proteomic database

Registration:

• The organizers can accommodate 25 participants, the modality of registration is as follows:
• Registration ends March 1, 18:00 CET.
• Admission is only open to those from STRATAGEM-registered laboratories
• In order to guarantee broad dissemination, each lab can register one or more persons. If a lab registers several persons, it has to rank them.
• Places will be awarded first come first serve for the persons ranked first.
• If there are places left, persons ranked second will be approved.
• If there are places left, persons ranked third will be approved, etc.

Applications should be send via email to [email protected]