Diploma Courses

Vasishth Academy of Advanced Studies and Research offers diploma and certificate courses in the area of next generation sequencing bioinformatics.

Currently due to Covid pandemic these workshops are offered only through online mode and may continue so.

Pre-requisite for the courses are just windows desktop/laptop with good internet connection.

Advanced Diploma on Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis | Platform: Galaxy

[3 day a week for 3 months]

Module 1 : Introduction of NGS technology

Overview: Major applications, basic concepts and scientific breakthroughs

Basics: Sequencing alignment for NGS data

Basics: Data formats

Module 2 : DNA-seq

Basic concepts, history before NGS, experimental considerations

Mapping, refined alignment, quality recalibration

Variant identification, annotation and reporting

Module 3 : RNA-seq

Experimental considerations and sequencing alignment

Mapping

Transcript reconstruction and transcriptome assembly

Differential gene expression analysis

Module 4 : Chip-seq

Mapping

Peak Calling

Gene Identification

Motif Identification

Module 5 : Metatranscriptomics

Quality control and Data Cleaning

Ribosomal RNA fragments filtering

Extraction

Normalization

Identification of pathway gene families

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Certificate Courses

1 week each

Certificate course on DNA-seq using Galaxy

Overview of DNA-SEQ, Major applications, basic concepts and scientific breakthroughs , Data formats, Mapping, refined alignment, quality recalibration, Variant identification, annotation and reporting.

Certificate course on RNA-seq using Galaxy

Overview of RNA-seq, applications, Data formats, Alignment and Mapping, Transcript reconstruction and transcriptome assembly, Differential gene expression analysis.

Certificate course on Metatranscriptomics using Galaxy

Overview, applications, Data formats, Quality control and Data Cleaning, Ribosomal RNA fragments filtering, Extraction, Normalization Identification of pathway gene families.

Certificate course on 16S Microbial Analysis using Galaxy

Overview, applications, Data formats, Quality Control, Create contigs from paired-end reads

Data Cleaning, Optimization and Alignment, Chimera Removal, Taxonomy, Removal of non-bacterial sequences.