I am pleased to announce that we will be running a two-week summer workshop on analyzing high-throughput sequencing data! This workshop will run from June 26-July 8th, 2017, and it is an continuation of the two-week NGS workshop run at Michigan State University since 2010. (You can read about the …
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Every year since 2010, I've been the primary organizer for a summer workshop on Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data. In 2010 and 2011, I was funded internally by the Gene Expression in Disease and Development group at MSU; since 2012, I've had a $50,000/yr grant from the NIH …
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On June 11th, 2010, I remember dropping the last workshop attendee off at the Kalamazoo train station, turning the car towards home, and nearly sobbing in relief that workshop was over and done and I could finally get some sleep now. That workshop was the first of a series of …
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Here are some statistics from this year's applications to the NGS course. Briefly, this is a two-week workshop on sequence analysis at the command line and in the cloud.
The short version is that demand remains high; note that we admit only 24 applicants, so generally < 20%...
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I've just opened applications for the 2015 summer course on Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data. The course will run from August 10th through August 21st; for details, see the course information page.
This year there will also be a third week of the course that is invitation-only. This third week …
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The fifth annual Analyzing Next Generation Sequencing Data workshop just finished - #ngs2014. As usual the schedule and all of the materials are openly available.
tl; dr? Good stuff.
We've been running this thing since 2010, and we now have almost 120 alumni (5 classes of roughly 24 students each). The …
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