General Information

Data Carpentry workshops are for any researcher who has data they want to analyze, and no prior computational experience is required. This hands-on workshop teaches basic concepts, skills and tools for working more effectively with data. The focuses of this workshop will be working with genomics data, and data management & analysis for genomics research. They will cover metadata organization in spreadsheets, data organization, connecting to and using cloud computing, the command line for sequence quality control and bioinformatics workflows.

We will cover Introduction to the Shell and Cloud Computing, The Shell and Project Setup, Know Your Data and Variant Calling and Workflow Automation. Participants should bring their laptops and plan to participate actively. By the end of the workshop learners should be able to more effectively manage and analyze data and be able to apply the tools and approaches directly to their ongoing research.

Who: The workshop primarily includes students and postdocs who are in the Rutgers iJOBS program funded by the NIH BEST initiative but may also include additional interested students and faculty.

Where: New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Ave, Medical Science Building Room B516, Newark, NJ. Get directions with OpenStreetMap or Google Maps.

Requirements: Participants must bring a laptop with a Mac, Linux, or Windows operating sytem (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc.) that they have administrative privileges on. They should have a few specific software packages installed (listed below). They are also required to abide by Data Carpentry's Code of Conduct.

Contact: Please mail janet.alder@rutgers.edu for more information.

Etherpad: http://pad.software-carpentry.org/2017-12-05-rutgers.
We will use this Etherpad for chatting, taking notes, and sharing URLs and bits of code.

Surveys

Please be sure to complete these surveys before and after the workshop.

Pre-workshop Survey

Post-workshop Survey

Preliminary Schedule

Syllabus