BioTech 79: Variant Analysis- May  23-26, 2017

  
Biotechnology Hands-on Training Courses at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Campus

 

Registration occurs on a first-come, first-served basis. The deadline for registration is one week before the first day of the course.  If you are unable to register before the deadline, please email: training@faes.org or call 301-496-7975 for space availability. 
NIH employees paying with the signed vendor copy of the SF-182 form, please email:  registration@faes.org   

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Background:
Next generation sequencing technologies have made genotyping a day to day research and diagnostic tool. Genotyping has come all the way from bench-to-bedside. Genetic variants are being used in personalized medicine to identify susceptibility genes, common disease variants and mutations relevant for diagnosis and therapy.

Objectives:
Participants will use popular open source tools and techniques necessary for analysing variants starting from raw data quality control. Apart from the regular analysis like alignment, variant calling and annotation, this training will walk through participants in several advanced variant analysis methods and techniques.

Who should attend:
Researchers and academics interested in learning the tools and methods to identify and study variants using techniques like DNA-Seq and other methods. 
Clinicians, researchers and academics interested in understanding/predicting the effect of mutations on the structure and function of a biological molecule for diagnostic and treatment potentials.
Program administrators who are interested in getting a firsthand experience working with tools and techniques to understand variant analysis.

Skill sets taught:
NGS Basics, experimental design, data format
Data quality control, preprocessing and alignment
Germline variant calling
Somatic variant calling
Variant score recalibration and filtering
Variant calling best practices
Indels, structural and copy-number variation
Cohort and population scale analysis
Recombination, linkage, LOH, haplotype, allelic imbalance
 Variant annotation and association analysis
Co-variation, causal variation, network analysis

Highlights:
Cloud-based Linux desktop
Cloud image freely provided to participants
Training provided by active NIH researchers
Cookbook style bound manual for all exercises
Direct, after training support through exclusive forum membership
Continuing Educational Credits

Course Agenda:
Day 1
9 AM to 12 PM: Cloud computing setup & Linux basics
1 PM to 2.30 PM: Overview of Concepts in Variant Analysis (Presentation)
2.30 PM to 5 PM: Calling variants using GATK (Hands-on exercise)

Day 2
9 AM to 10 AM: Beyond SNPs: indels, copy number variants, and structural variants (Presentation)
10 AM to 12 PM: Working with indels (Hands-on exercise)
1 PM to 5 PM: Calling structural and copy-number variants (Hands-on exercise)

Day 3
9 AM to 10 AM: Identifying haplotypes and rare variants (Presentation)
10 AM to 12 PM: Identifying haplotypes, LOH, and de-novo variants in parent-offspring trios  (Hands-on)
1 PM to 2.30 PM: Phasing and imputation (Hands-on)
2.30 to 5 PM: Identifying rare variants  (Hands-on)

Day 4
9 AM to 10 AM: Variant annotation and association studies (Lecture)
10 AM to 12 PM: Single-locus association using Plink
1 to 4.45 PM: Network based variant analysis         

Note: Students will need to bring their own laptop to this program

Related BioTech Courses
BioTech 56: RNA-Sequencing 

General Training Rate
$1,195.00
Discounted Training Rates
$695.00 - NIH Trainees (Fellows, PostDocs, PostBacs working at the NIH Campus)    
$895.00 - NIH Community (Working, Appointed, or Assigned to the NIH Campus)
$995.00 - Academia, Government, Military

Comprehensive Binder
Contains all notes, protocols, and reference material needed. No additional books are required. 

Credit
Although no grades are given for courses, each participant will receive Continuing Education Units (CEUs) based on the number of contact hours.   One CEU is equal to ten contact hours.   Upon completion of this course each participant will receive a certificate, showing completion of the workshop and 2.8 CEUs.

Refund Policy                                                                                                             
100% tuition refund or 100% full workshop credit is available for registrations cancelled 14 or more days prior to the start of the workshop. 
50% tuition refund or 100% full workshop credit is available for registrations cancelled between 4 to 13 days prior to the start of the workshop. 
0% refund, 100% full workshop credit is available for registrations cancelled 
3 days or less prior to the start of the workshop.  

Notification
All cancellations must be received in writing via email to Ms. Carline Coote at ccoote@mail.nih.gov. 
Cancellations received after hours are time marked for the following day.
In regards to a full or partial refund or a full workshop credit, you must indicate which option you are selecting at the time of your written cancellation. 
All refund payments will be processed by the start of the initial workshop.

Suggested Accommodations
The American Inn of Bethesda  (Discount Code:  NIHFAES)
The Bethesda Court Hotel  (Promo/Corporate Code: BTCMS) 

 

 

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