R for Biologists

10 - 13 July 2023

Regisration

Coming Soon

Times

9.30am - 4.30pm each day

Venue

Kings Buildings 
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh
EH9 3FL

Places

24 for each workshop

You will be contacted by our finance team for full payment. Once payment is made, your place will be confirmed and full details sent by our training team.

Registration fee

£350 - University of Edinburgh staff/students
£375 - Other university or registered charity staff/students
£400 - Industrial researchers
 

Information

Contact our training team

 

The aim of this course is to introduce participants to the statistical computing language 'R' using examples and skills relevant to biological data science. This online workshop is taught by experienced Edinburgh Genomics trainers. By the end of the workshop, you will be comfortable with the basics of the R and R Studio environments, learning about the rules of the language and how R works with different data types and structures. We then move on to using functions, introducing a selection of packages for biological data science including the 'Tidyverse' family of packages. Finally, we will learn how to visualise your data to generate publication-ready plots using the package ggplot2.

 

 

"Brilliant course in all things 'R' with @ddunbar @Nathcmedd !!! Great fun guys, learnt so much" (July 2021)

"Really enjoying this course and would highly recommend ‘R for Biologists’ from @edgenome!
@Nathcmedd and @ddunbar are phenomenal educators and make me feel like it’s possible to understand R (and maybe even like it.....)"  (May 2021)

 

Instructors

  • Nathan Medd (Training Manager, EdGe)
  • Heleen De Weerd (Bioinformatics Analyst, EdGe) 

Workshop format

The workshop consists of presentations and hands-on tutorials.

Who should attend

Graduates, postgraduates, and PIs, who are using, or planning to use, the statistical software R to manipulate and analyse NGS and other data in their research. This is an introductory level course: no prior experience of R is necessary before starting the workshop.

 

Covered topics

See tentative timetable below:

Day 1

  • Intro to R 
  • Rstudio, R markdown
  • R object, variable and data types (character, integer etc)
  • R resources: cheat sheets, help
  • Data Importing and cleaning
  • Data structures
  • Data manipulation and subsetting

Day 2

  • More data Importing and cleaning
  • An introduction to the Tidyverse
  • Another dataset to play with
  • Intro to basic plotting and to ggplot2

Day 3

  • Data viz with ggplot2
  • Interactive plots 
  • Discussion/data clinic