A training course offered by DIPLOMICS and Thermo Fisher Scientific that deals with the basics of the Linux operating system and command line operation is open for registration.
DIPLOMICS is a network of academic, commercial and industrial labs in South Africa and a resource for the national and international Omics community.
This hands-on course includes:
– An introduction to the Linux OS and how to work in the command line;
– Relational databases and MySQL;
– Basic database operations (creating tables, inserting data, constructing queries);
– Python (or Perl) programming languages;
– Creating a script that transforms variant data into a format that can be loaded into a relational database.
DETAILS
The course is open to all molecular biologists and bench scientists interested in going beyond the graphic interface. The course is open to cross-platform data analysis users (not limited to Ion Torrent users).
Course dates: 22-26 August
Venue: DIPLOMICS training room in Cape Town (108 Albert Rd, Woodstock)