Microbiome data science & multi-omics with R/Bioconductor

This intensive 3-day course provides an introduction to microbiome data science and multi-omic data integration with R/Bioconductor, a popular open source environment for scientific data analysis. The course is intended for MSc students, PhD candidates, postdocs, and researchers who wish to learn new data analytical skills. Academic students and researchers from Finland and abroad are welcome and encouraged to apply.

Registration is free. The course is organized in a live format, and participants are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation. See the course homepage for registration instructions and travel & accommodation tips. The course has maximum capacity of 20 participants. Applications from local students, and applications submitted by November 11 will be given priority.

The course is organized by Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programme (HBS-DP) University of Oulu Graduate School, Research Unit of Translational Medicine, University of Oulu and the Biocity Turku CompLifeSci research program. We thank the Finnish IT Center for Science (CSC) for supporting the course with cloud computing services. This is a Bioconductor course and it follows the best practices recommended by Software Carpentries.

For more details on course content, registration, teachers, travel & accommodation tips and other practical information, see the course homepage (https://microbiome.github.io/course_2024_oulu/).