This is a one-day workshop to provide an overview of data management and ontology principles in addition to hands-on experience with functional genomics resources at the EBI which cover data submission, archive and visualisation. These resources are: Annotare, ArrayExpress and the transcriptomics knowledgebases Expression Atlases (bulk and single-cell).

• ArrayExpress: public database for functional genomics
• Expression Atlas: Gene expression across species and biological conditions

Who is this course for?

This workshop is aimed at wet-lab scientists and bioinformaticians. Participants should have degree-level understanding of molecular biology/genetics and be proficient at using web browsers.

What will I learn?

Learning outcomes

After this course participants should be able to:

• Summarize good data management concepts and incorporate them into their research practice
• Explain and use data submission process at the EBI with the web tool Annotare
• Investigate datasets in ArrayExpress relevant to users’ research
• Access and download the raw data and accompanying metadata
• Interpret the results of data visualisation in Expression Atlas and its counterpart Single Cell Expression Atlas to draw conclusions about available data as well as downloading the results of the data analysis
• Define different methods for producing single cell data and the considerations underlying these decisions

Trainers

Registration is being administered by Michael Newman. If you have questions about registration, please contact Michael for further information.