October 02, 2020
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Image Analysis courses for PhDs start October 15, 2020
For the fifth year, the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub and the Image Analysis Hub offer bioinformatics courses dedicated primarily to first-year PhD students at the institute. In the age of Big Data and computational biology, it is crucial to give young biology researchers the foundations of reproducible research: from the design of optimal experiments giving reliable and robust results, to the analysis of their own data in autonomy, while at the same time getting to know the bioinformaticians and statisticians on campus.
This year, in addition to the initiation modules on Unix, sequence analysis, and image analysis, there will be two weeks dedicated to high-throughput biological data analysis (genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics, metagenomics and phylogenetics) and still.
These courses are in English and will begin with two mandatory half-days for all PhD students taking place on October 15 (morning) and 16 (afternoon), 2020 via Teams. A second session will be organized in February 2021 for students arriving after October 15. These first two half-days include an introduction to computer science, reproducibility and for the first time an introduction to ethics in science. Also students will have the opportunity to test their level in statistics and to register for course modules corresponding to their background and needs.