Bioinformatics is now a potent driver of scientific development, complementing wet-lab research in immunology and becoming an essential skill for current and future generations.
The British Society for Immunology offers highly rated online training to equip wet-lab life scientists with the skills and confidence to perform their own bioinformatic data analysis.
‘Further omics, statistics & clinical data in R’ is an advanced course designed for wet-lab immunologists, biologists and other life scientists who have some experience* and would like an in-depth course to:
- Gain advanced statistical analysis and R skills
- Explore omic datasets with many experimental groups
- Explore clinical data in R and combine with omic analysis
- Work on proteomics, bulk RNA-seq and GeoMx
Do you want to take your omic data analysis and R skills to the next level and raise the impact of your research? Deepen your knowledge and boost your confidence in five online sessions!
This course forms part of a wider bioinformatics training programme, developed and delivered by the Glasgow Bioinformatic Core and offered by the BSI.
Course description
Starting on Monday 2 February 2026 and running every Monday, for 5 weeks (09:30–16:30 GMT), this top-rated follow-on course covers:
- Exploring clinical data using R. Summary statistics, P-values, linear models, survival curves, correlation, PCA
- Identifying confounding covariates and correcting for batch effects
- Generating differential expression tables for RNA and Proteomic datasets
- Writing your own functions in R - a time-saving superpower
- Power calculations for grant bids
- Deeply exploring omic datasets with >2 groups. Using biomarker, overlap & signature analysis, and identifying novel groups using K-means clustering
The course also offers extensive self-paced learning, covering additional topics:
- The Linux environment and command-line coding
- Sequence alignment using BLAST, Bowtie2, Kallisto and Cell Ranger
- QC of sequence data
- ChIP-seq and ATAC-seq
- RNA-seq data alignment
- Identifying polymorphism and mutation
- Generating and visualising phylogenetic trees
- Writing pipelines
- Data structures in R
- The TidyVerse and R markdown
The course is delivered by the Glasgow Bioinformatic Core, which has over 18 years’ experience in bioinformatic analysis and lecturing, and is perfectly positioned to help you master bioinformatics, R and command-line skills.
You will get:
- Digestible classes that fit around your lab schedule – they are Mondays only on Zoom
- Low-cost training, significantly more affordable than other courses – just £325 + VAT for BSI members
- Sought-after skills that will expand your career prospects – add it to your CV!
- Confidence to carry out bioinformatic data processing and analysis of your own, or public datasets
And much more!
Registration
Registration is open.
| Fee | |
|---|---|
| BSI member | £325 + VAT |
| Non-member | £650 + VAT |
The British Society for Immunology offers this course at a discount to all BSI members. You can sign up to become a member online. BSI members also benefit from discounts on fees for BSI events, as well as free access to our journals, grants, career development activities and much more.
Rating and reviews
This highly rated programme has had over 3,000 attendees since 2019, with a mean rating of 9.5/10 for content and delivery, and 94% of participants were happy with the session length and pace.
Who signs up for this training?
Wet-lab scientists…
- Who have completed our entry level course ‘Omics, bioinformatics & R for biologists’ or have comparable experience
- Keen to further develop their knowledge and skills into more advanced analysis
- Who are thinking of doing omic experiments throughout their career and would like the skills to be wholly independent
- Who need to understand omics in the current literature
Suitable for self paced learning
Enrolling in any of our live courses also gives you access to the self-paced materials. Including full lecture recordings, cheat code, and R / command line tutorial workbooks, which are designed to be easy to follow on your own. You can even ask the coordinators questions via our ThinkIfic teaching site.
There’s no downside. You can do self-paced learning and live training as suits you.
Optional extra courses
This training course is a follow-on course. We have also have the additional ‘Single cell and spatial omics’, which will complete your training. Here you can see the full outline of the programme and guidance on which course is right for you.
The programme has been developed and is delivered by the Glasgow Bioinformatic Core and is being offered by the British Society for Immunology.