We’re excited to offer a comprehensive and highly rated training programme in collaboration with John Cole (Glasgow Bioinformatic Core), to equip wet-lab immunologists, clinical scientists and other life scientists with the skills and confidence to perform their own bioinformatic data analysis.
Bioinformatics is becoming ubiquitous within the life sciences and is a potent driver of scientific development. With the increased use of bioinformatic methods to complement wet-lab research in immunology, knowing how to design and analyse omic experiments is becoming an essential skill for all researchers.
Effective and affordable courses in this area are few and far between, which is why we’re offering a low-cost, comprehensive, and highly rated training option designed for wet-lab life scientists and available at a discounted rate for all BSI members.
Do you want to do some omics and raise the impact of your research? Scroll down for more information and to book your place!
Are you a lab-based scientist…
- Doing or planning on doing a sequencing, mass-spec or spatial omic experiment?
- Keen to learn bioinformatics and R to advance your career, for example, after finishing a PhD or in future post-docs?
- Who needs to understand omics in the current literature?
- Who’s been on a course but is missing the practical skills and confidence to put it to use?
By signing up to this top-rated bioinformatics training programme, you will get:
- Digestible classes designed to fit around your lab schedule. Either as live zoom teaching or self-paced learning with weekly live drop-ins.
- Low-cost training that is significantly more affordable than other courses – just £325 + VAT for BSI members, for 10 sessions
- Sought-after skills that will expand your career prospects and boost your CV
- Confidence to carry out data analysis of your own or public datasets to support your research
- Lessons on making beautiful plots using R, e.g., PCA, UMAP, heatmap, violin, MA, volcano, pathway analysis, spatial plots, etc.
- Long term access to veteran bioinformaticians to ask advice when needed
And much more!
Courses open
Omic data analysis and visualisation using R
- Monday 8 to Friday 19 December, live course running every weekday morning for two weeks - further course details and register here
Further omics, statistics & clinical data in R
- Monday 2 February to Monday 2 March, running every Monday for five weeks - register here
More details coming soon. Please keep an eye on this page and our social media @britsocimm.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with us at training@immunology.org.
Which course is right for me?
Our entry course ‘Omic data analysis and visualisation using R’ is essential for complete beginners, covering the foundations of bioinformatics, R-coding and omic data visualisation. Additionally, we have optional extra courses depending on need, which build on specific lessons obtained in the first course. They allow for specialisation into advanced topics.
| Omic data analysis & visualisation using R | Further omics, statistics and clinical data in R* | Single cell & spatial omics** | Essential command line omics & genome analysis* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulk RNA-seq | ESSENTIAL | USEFUL | ||
| GeoMx | ESSENTIAL | ESSENTIAL | ||
| Proteomics | ESSENTIAL | USEFUL | ||
| Metabolomics | ESSENTIAL | USEFUL | ||
| Genomics | ESSENTIAL | ESSENTIAL | ||
| Epigenomics | ESSENTIAL | ESSENTIAL | ||
| Single-cell RNA-sq | ESSENTIAL | USEFUL | ESSENTIAL | |
| Single-cell spatial | ESSENTIAL | USEFUL | ESSENTIAL |
*This course is aimed at those who have carried out the entry-level course ‘Omics, bioinformatics & R for biologists’ or have a comparable level of experience.
**This course is aimed at those who have a basic familiarity with R.
Suitable for self paced learning
All courses come with the option for self-paced learning. Even if you book a live course we give you 12-months access to the self-paced versions. This includes all course materials: lecture recordings, tutorial workbooks and cheat code. Which are designed to be easy to follow on their own. You can fit studying around your day-to-day commitments.
What’s more, you can ask the coordinators questions via our ThinkIfic teaching site, and our weekly live zoom drop-in sessions. Where a team of veteran bioinformaticians will be available to support your learning. There’s no downside. You can choose between live training and/or self-paced learning as suits you.
Typically we recommend those new to Bioinformatics or R attend the live ‘Bioinformatics & R for Wet-Lab Biologists’ course. Once comfortable in R, the follow-up courses work particularly well as self-paced learning.
Access to our bioinformatic and sequencing advice team
Enrolling in any of our courses gives you access to our Zoom drop-in sessions. These run weekly throughout the year. During these sessions, you can ask veteran bioinformaticians for help with code, experimental design or anything relating to sequencing, omics and bioinformatics.
What do previous attendees think?
The course 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.
“Great course! Never thought that something so complex like R could be explained in such clear and simple manner.”
“The content of the course was great and was clearly relevant to biological data analysis from start to finish. I really appreciate that each line of code and each function within the code was explained, as this has left me able to write and customise my code and plots in hundreds of ways.”
“Really enjoyed this outstanding course – allowed a complete novice (me) to become R-functional – I will continue to improve as the course tutorial structure/course materials make it easy to revise/hone skills.”
“I've been on other R courses and this was the best by far as I actually finished it feeling a lot less scared of R and omics generally!”
"I think the course was excellent. I had very little knowledge of bioinformatics at all, and I now feel I have a firm understanding of the different aspects of sequencing, data presentation and what said presentation shows."
“I have done 3 R courses, this is the only one that actually gives me joy. Thanks so much!”
“Fantastic course, really helpful lots of personalised support. Couldn't recommend more”
“Excellent course and John's explanations of complex concepts was superb. Would definitely recommend to others.”
“Despite John saying it really is for beginners I was convinced that I would really struggle based on my lack of experience, but I did soooooo much better than I thought. John has an amazing way of breaking it down to really manageable chunks pitched just right for beginners but answering deeper questions for those more experienced. I would recommend this course to anyone and everyone.”
“I have followed other R courses in the past and this was the only one delivered in a way that wet lab - only scientists can comprehend R. I found very insightful the way each line of code was explained and the discussion over the basics of every visualisation tool. I certainly feel that I am equipped with the skills and most importantly the confidence to use R for my data analysis. Thank you!”
“Excellent course on omics data analysis with hands-on coding exercises. Five star experience. Highly recommended!”
“This is probably the most useful course I have ever attended”
“Great course, thanks for everything - makes me not only more confident in working with omic data myself, but also in assessing papers and presentations on the topic. Best course I've done for years!”
