DRP- HCB Training Courses

The Bioinformatics Core offers a number of training courses and information sessions throughout the year:

* Training Courses - Data science for biology, Analysing high-throughput sequencing data. 
* Data Drop-in sessions
* Bioinformatics live
 

*Data science for biology (2026)

This course introduces the R programming language. R is an extremely powerful tool for data science, statistical analysis and data visualisation. It is favoured by biologists due to its extensive library of packages for bioinformatics and genomic analysis.

The Data Science for Biology course is divided into six modules. Participants can register for the full course or individual modules.

• Introduction to R and RStudio - 17th February
• Data manipulation and visualisation (Tidyverse) - 17th March
• Genomic datasets in R (Bioconductor) - 21st April
• Introduction to statistics (RStatix) - 12th May
• Differential expression analysis (DESeq2) - 9th June
• Data publication and presentation (Quarto and Shiny) - 23rd June

Each module consists of:

• A full day in person workshop
• Online training material for self study
• A practical exercise that can be tailored to your own data
• Access to monthly bioinformatics drop in sessions

Cost

• All modules: £200
• Individual modules: £50

Registration

Please complete the registration form to sign up for the course or individual modules.

2026

Advanced Microscopy course - 4 days

Date: tbc

Venue: tbc

Capacity: 20

Registration: coming soon

The course combines theory and practical sessions covering Brightfield, Fluorescence and Confocal microscopy,  and Image analysis, as well as more advanced methods including  Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy (TIRFM),  Super Resolution Microscopy, Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy and the  C-Trap Optical Tweezers.

Light Microscopy training costs

• 4-day workshop £200

2026

Proteomics Core Training Course - 2 days

Date: tbc

Venue: tbc

Capacity: 25

Registration: coming soon

The course combines theory and practical sessions covering introduction to instrumentation, sample preparation, basics of mass spectrometry, quantative proteomics and cross-linking.  Computational practicals provide training  on proteomics software (MaxQuant and DIA-NN) for analysis of mass spectrometry acquired data, advanced computational analysis and interpretation of proteomics datasets and processing of cross‐linking data, including use of the Xi viewer for visualisation of cross-links.

Proteomics training costs

• 1-day workshop £100
• 2-day workshop £150

Structural Biology training costs

• Introduction to CryoEM - free, registration required
• Introduction to the Structural Biology Core - free, registration required
• Bespoke training on core equipment, prices tbc.

2026

Introduction to CryoEM

Date: tbc

Venue: tbc

Capacity: 20

Registration: coming soon

This course provides an introduction to EM and cryo-EM methods, including sample preparation, microscope capabilities, limitations and future developments, and discussion of the local facility.

Introduction to the Structural Biology Core

Date: tbc

Venue: tbc

Capacity: 20

Registration: coming soon

This course introduces the technologies available within the Structural Biology Core, including X-ray crystallography and solution methods such as light and X-ray scattering (MALS and SAXS).