Welcome!

We’re based at Cancer Research Uk Cambridge Institute and MRC Cancer Unit on the Cambridge Biomedical campus about 2 miles south of here

Who’s who

• Mark Fernandes (CRUK CI).
• Rory Stark (CRUK CI)
• Shamith Samarajiwa (MRC CU).
• Dora Bihary (MRC CU).
• Joanna Krupka (MRC CU).
  
• Ashley Sawle (CRUK CI).
  
• Alistair Martin (CRUK CI).
  
• Stephane Ballereau (CRUK CI).
  
• Dominique-Laurent Couturier(CRUK CI).

Huge thanks too to Kelly O’Reilly, Justin Holt, Louisa Bellis (CRUKCC) for admin support, and Gabriella, Paul and Cathy for support in Genetics

Who are you?

Admin

• Course runs 09:30 ~ 17:00 each day (Friday is a half-day)
  • Room open from 09:00 each day
• Lunch provided 12:30 - 13:30 each day
  • different room on the same campus, we’ll take you there
• No fixed coffee and tea breaks
  • but you’ll probably have noticed the coffee machine at the back
• Please refrain from using the coffee machine when someone is lecturing
  • you’ll discover why when you use the machine!
• Workshop dinner on ednesday night at Downing College
  • We assume you’re coming unless you’ve told us otherwise
  • Please let us know a.s.a.p if you won’t be coming!

About the Course - “Functional Genomics”

• You will (probably) not come away being an expert
• We cannot teach you everything about NGS data
  • plus, it is a fast-moving field
  • will cover a selection of tools / methods
• However, we hope that you will
  • Understand how your data are processed
  • Be able to explore your data - no programming required
  • Understand the issues and compromises involved in current methods
  • Communicate more effectively with the Bioinformaticians dealing with your data
  • Increase confidence with R and Bioconductor
  • Know where to get help
  • Be able to explore new technologies, methods, tools as they come out
  • Meet your colleagues from other CRUK institutes
  • Have fun!
• All materials will be online after the course
  • tell your colleagues, friends!

Live note-taking and documentation

• We have an “etherpad” at https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/2019-07-15-functional-genomics
• Use this to ask questions during the talks
• We can post code snippets, links and corrections here too. So please keep it open in a browser tab…