Date:
July 25, 2019
Time:
1-5pm
Place:
Mission Hall 1407
Description
This course will be both theoretical and hands-on. We will learn the main tools used to do alignment, variant calling, annotation and visualization. We will start with raw FASTQ reads and get to annotated variants (VCF files).
Presenter
Leandro Lima, Gladstone Institutes. Leandro is a bioinformatician with BSc. and MSc. in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Bioinformatics. He is working mainly with whole-genome sequencing (variant calling, copy-number variation analysis, and annotation) and GWAS data to prioritize variants in neurological diseases. He is also applying Machine Learning algorithms to classify ALS and PD patients with early and late onset.