Category: workshop or webinar

Building computational skills for women in science

15 April, 2013 (09:16) | workshop or webinar | By: Mary

It’s really crucial for scientists of all stripes to have some computational skills in their toolbelts. In genomics, the deluge of data that needs to be sorted, sifted, and analyzed is not going to stop–so it’s even more urgent that everyone gets some comfort and capability to work with the data, do some scripting to [...]

Rare photo of me in the wild….

15 January, 2013 (13:24) | General Science, workshop or webinar | By: Mary

Of downtown Boston, at Tufts Medical Center, singing the praises of IMG and the Integrated Microbial Genomes resources. I love workshops that only require a trip on the Orange Line. Today we were doing the World Tour of Genomics Resources. Tomorrow it is UCSC Genome Browser (intro + advanced), and Thursday ENCODE. So if you [...]

UCSC / ENCODE webinar follow up post

24 July, 2012 (09:05) | Genomics Research, workshop or webinar | By: Mary

We’ll be having our July 24th UCSC – ENCODE webinar today, and we find there are questions to follow up afterwards that are often better handled in discussions on the blog. If there are questions we didn’t have time to get to–or things we want to expand on with more detail–we can discuss them in this thread. [...]

ENCODE data in the UCSC Genome Browser webinar Tuesday

20 July, 2012 (10:20) | Genomics Research, workshop or webinar | By: Mary

We’ve got a webinar coming up Tuesday July 24 exploring our brand-new “ENCODE in the UCSC Genome Browser” materials. We are preparing the accompanying movie, but it’s still in our studio right now. So this is your first chance to see the new materials. To register, go here: http://openhelix.com/cgi/webinars.cgi This webinar explores how to identify [...]

Galaxy Intro Webinar follow-up post (July 19)

19 July, 2012 (10:32) | workshop or webinar | By: Trey

We’ll be having our July 19th Galaxy webinar today, and we find there are questions to follow up afterwards that are often better handled in discussions on the blog. If there are questions we didn’t have time to get to–or things we want to expand on with more detail–we can discuss them in this thread. Or if [...]

UCSC Introduction Webinar follow-up post (May 17)

17 May, 2012 (12:06) | workshop or webinar | By: Mary

We’ll be having our May 17th webinar today, and we find there are questions to follow up afterwards that are often better handled in discussions on the blog. If there are questions we didn’t have time to get to–or things we want to expand on with more detail–we can discuss them in this thread. Or [...]

Webinars on how to use UCSC Genome and Table browsers

7 May, 2012 (16:11) | workshop or webinar | By: Trey

As we have in the past, we are offering free webinars in the coming weeks on the UCSC Genome Browser and Advanced discovery using the Table Browser and custom tracks. These have been quite popular in the past, so sign up soon! The Intro to the Genome Browser webinar will be Thursday, May 17th at [...]

“Regulatory and Epigenetic Landscapes of Mammalian Genomes”

23 April, 2012 (10:26) | Genomics Research, workshop or webinar | By: Mary

In the series of talks from the Current Topics in Genome Analysis course from NHGRI, Laura Elnitski spoke on regulation and epigenetics. I’ll include some of my notes below, but be sure to check out the whole talk when you have a chance–and the slides are available for download from the CTGA page. Dr. Elnitski [...]

So. Cal. UCSC Genome Browser workshop, 3/29/12

19 March, 2012 (09:15) | Genomics Resource News, workshop or webinar | By: Mary

Hi folks– If you are in the Los Angeles area, we wanted to offer you the opportunity to attend one of our UCSC Genome Browser and ENCODE data workshops. Our hosts–led by Yate-Ching Yuan and her terrific team at City of Hope who have hosted us before–have organized a training day and they have a [...]