Date: 7 - 11 October 2024

The Galaxy Academy is a self-paced online training event for beginners as well as learners who would like to improve their Galaxy data analysis skills. Over the course of one week, we will have a different topic and focus every day.

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Keywords: beginner

Learning objectives:

  • Assess long reads FASTQ quality using Nanoplot and PycoQC
  • Assess short reads FASTQ quality using FASTQE 🧬😎 and FastQC
  • Become comfortable converting text-based files in a variety of ways.
  • Connect different parts of the Research Object using identifiers
  • Construct an RO-Crate by hand using JSON
  • Describe each part of the Research Object
  • Explain what is a BAM file and what it contains
  • Familiarize yourself with data manipulation tools in Galaxy
  • Familiarize yourself with the basics of Galaxy
  • Gain understanding on navigating and manipulating histories
  • Generate a workflow test using Planemo
  • Learn about how Galaxy handles NGS data using Illumina data derived from patients infected with SARS-CoV-2
  • Learn basic JSON-LD to create FAIR metadata
  • Learn how histories work
  • Learn how to create a workflow
  • Learn how to extract and run a workflow
  • Learn how to obtain data from external sources
  • Learn how to run tools
  • Learn how to share a history
  • Learn how to share your work
  • Learn how to upload a file
  • Learn how to use a tool
  • Learn how to view histories
  • Learn how to view results
  • Perform basic text manipulation tasks in Galaxy
  • Perform quality correction with Cutadapt (short reads)
  • Process single-end and paired-end data
  • Reason about the expected outcome of tools
  • Run a tool to map reads to a reference genome
  • Summarise quality metrics MultiQC
  • Understand and master dataset collections
  • Understand how testing can be automated with GitHub Actions
  • Understand most common types of NGS-related datatypes
  • Use genome browser to understand your data

Organizer: Anika Erxleben (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/erxleben/), Anna Syme (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/annasyme/), Anton Nekrutenko (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nekrut/), Dannon Baker (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/dannon/), Delphine Lariviere (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/delphine-l/), Gareth Price (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/GarethPrice-Aus/), John Davis (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/jdavcs/), Michael Schatz (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/mschatz/), Natalie Kucher (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/nakucher/), Natalie Whitaker-Allen (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/natalie-wa/), Saskia Hiltemann (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/shiltemann/), Teresa Müller (https://training.galaxyproject.org/training-material/hall-of-fame/teresa-m/)

Event types:

  • Workshops and courses

Sponsors: ABRomics, DataPLANT (NFDI4Plants), ELIXIR Europe, Institut Français de Bioinformatique, Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg, de.NBI

Scientific topics: Mapping


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