Data Carpentry: Genomics - GWU: Schedule of Lessons

March 5th

March 6th

Project Organization and Management

• Data Tidiness
• Planning for NGS Projects
• Examining Data on the NCBI SRA Database

Data Wrangling and Processing for Genomics

• Background and Metadata
• Assessing Read Quality
• Trimming and Filtering
• Variant Calling Workflow
• Automating a Variant Calling Workflow

Introduction to the Command Line

• Introducing the Shell
• Navigating Files and Directories
• Working with Files and Directories
• Redirection
• Writing Scripts
• Project Organization

Introduction to Cloud Computing for Genomics

• Why Cloud Computing
• Logging onto the Cloud
• Fine Tuning your Cloud Setup
• Which Cloud for my Data?