Workshops

Sequence alignment, clustering, and phylogenetic analysis  
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This is a virtual workshop, you can participate by reading workshop materials, watching video presentations and carrying out exercises on an assigned BioHPC Cloud server (server assignments are listed here). If you need help, please sign up for our Office Hours. The server assigned to you for hands-on exercises will be available for a limited time, see server assignment page or bottom of this page for details. Please note, the server is assigned to you for hands-on exercises, NOT heavy computing, using the server for workshop unrelated computing is not allowed and will result in assignment termination.

This workshop covers basic concepts and tools for working with DNA and protein sequences, at either single gene or genomic scales. The three-week workshop has three lectures and three hands-on sessions, with topics including sequence alignment, clustering, gene function annotation, and phylogenetics. Each workshop participant will be assigned to a Linux server, and will have three weeks to finish several data analysis projects. (Qi Sun, Cheng Zou)

Workshop videos:

Session 1
Session 2

Session 3
Session 4
Session 5
Session 6


Workshop server assignment


Server assignment length 10 days  
Session 1 Sep 21 2020 3:30PM - 5:00PM Zoom
Concepts and tools for sequence alignment, including BLAST, PSSM, HMM, and MSA.
Session 2 Sep 23 2020 3:30PM - 5:00PM Zoom
Hands-on session
Session 3 Sep 28 2020 3:30PM - 5:00PM Zoom
Prediction of gene function with Interpro, PFAM, and BLAST2GO; Genome to genome alignment.   Concepts and tools for sequence alignment, including BLAST, PSSM, HMM, and MSA.
Session 4 Sep 30 2020 3:30PM - 5:00PM Zoom
Hands-on session. Extra slides.
Session 5 Oct 5 2020 3:30PM - 5:00PM Zoom
Gene sequence clustering; Orthologous groups and phylogenetic analysis.  
Session 6 Oct 7 2020 3:30PM - 5:00PM Zoom
Hands-on session.  Demo of Linux commands.
 
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