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1 + 1[1] 2WEHI R Course
Preface
Code-based analysis is an increasingly important skill for modern biomedical research. The R coding language enables user-friendly data tidying and transformation, and creation of publication-ready graphics. R is also core to bioinformatics research, supporting all types of ’omics data analysis, and general statistical analysis too.
Designed for complete coding beginners, this course will introduce data wrangling, data visualisation, and bioinformatics analysis in R. The first 4 of 6 sessions will cover foundations of R, and user-friendly ‘tidyverse’ software, which is applicable to many areas of medical and clinical research, and beyond. The final two sessions will combine tidyverse and specialised bioinformatics software to perform an RNA seq analysis workflow.
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This course is divided into 6 sessions. In the first 3 sessions, we will cover the basics of R and the tidyverse, and in the last 3 sessions, we will apply these skills to a bioinformatics analysis (session 4 covers a more general analysis, while 5 & 6 focus on RNA-seq). Each session is divided into sections, which are designed to be completed in order. Each section contains a mix of text, code, and exercises.
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Kerry Ko, Brendan Ansell and the WEHI education office for their work in organising and facilitating this course. We would also like to thank all of our instructors and tutors for making this course possible.
This course material for Sessions 5 and 6 was originally produced by Lucy Liu and modified for this workshop.
We acknowledge that this course is prepared and delivered on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging. We also acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, and that this always was and always will be Aboriginal land.