Schedule

The CRI Bioinformatics Bootcamp will take place Saturday, May 17, 2025 through Thursday, May 22, 2025 at Wyndham Grand Bonnet Creek in Orlando, Florida.

Day Time Duration Module Topic
1 (Sat) 9:00AM-9:30AM 0:30 R Workshop Introduction to R and RStudio
9:30AM-12:00PM 2:30 Hands-on: Reading, writing, and interpreting data structures
12:00PM-1:30PM 1:30 Office Hours Lunch
1:30PM-2:15PM 0:45 Introduction to plotting and statistics
2:15PM-3:15PM 1:00 Hands-on: Plotting information from data structures for real-time analysis
3:15PM-3:30PM 0:15 Break
3:30PM-5:00PM 1:30 Hands-on (cont’d): Plotting
2 (Sun) 9:00AM-9:30AM 0:30 R Workshop Types of analysis: Clustering concepts and correlation
9:45AM-12:00PM 2:30 Hands-on: Dimension reduction methods, computing correlation
12:00PM-1:30PM 1:30 Office Hours Lunch
1:30PM-2:15PM 0:45 Common challenges and resources
2:15PM-3:15PM 1:00 Hands-on: Creating different types of plots, continued practice
3:15PM-3:30PM 0:15 Break
3:30PM-5:00PM 1:30 Hands-on (cont’d): Continued practice
3 (Mon) 9:00AM-9:45AM 0:45 Bulk RNA sequencing Introduction to sequencing data processing and analysis
9:45AM-10:15AM 0:30 Introduction to rnabio.org
10:15AM-10:30AM 0:15 Introduction to bulk RNAseq dataset
10:30AM-11:30AM 1:00 Hands-on: Exploring RNAseq data in IGV
11:30AM-12:00PM 0:30 Hands-on: DE analysis with DESeq2
12:00PM-1:30PM 1:30 Office Hours Lunch
1:30PM-2:15PM 0:45 Hands-on: DE visualization with DESeq2
2:15PM-3:15PM 1:00 Hands-on: DE visualization advanced
3:15PM-4:45PM 1:30 Hands-on: Pathway analysis
4:45PM-5:00PM 0:15 Day 3 Summary/Questions
5:30PM-7:00PM 1:30 Office Hours
4 (Tue) 9:00AM-9:45AM 0:45 Single cell RNA sequencing Introduction to scRNAseq methods and analysis
9:45AM-10:15AM 0:30 Introduction to scRNAseq dataset and loupe demonstration
10:15AM-12:00PM 1:45 Hands-on: Quality assesment and clustering
12:00PM-1:30PM 1:30 Office Hours Lunch
1:30PM-2:15PM 0:45 Hands-on: Cell typing
2:15PM-3:30PM 1:15 Hands-on: DE analysis
3:30PM-4:45PM 1:15 Hands-on: Gene set and regulatory pathway
4:45PM-5:00PM 0:15 Day 4 Summary/Questions
5:30PM-7:00PM 1:30 Office hours
5 (Wed) 9:00AM-9:45AM 0:45 Single cell RNA sequencing Advanced analyses in scRNAseq and multi-omic integration
9:45AM-12:00PM 2:00 Hands-on: Cancer cell identification
12:00PM-1:30PM 1:30 Office Hours Lunch
1:30PM-3:00PM 1:30 Hands-on: Trajectory analysis
3:00PM-4:15PM 1:15 Hands-on: TCR/BCR analysis
4:15PM-4:45PM 0:30 vLoupe Browser demonstration
4:45PM-5:00PM 0:15 Day 5 Summary/Questions
6 (Thu) 9:00AM-10:00AM 1:00 Spatial Transcriptomics Introduction to spatial transcriptomics: Visium, Xenium, CosMx
10:00AM-10:30AM 0:30 Sample pre-processing
10:30AM-11:30PM 1:00 Seurat objects, motifs and neighborhood clustering (Banksy, Grafiti)
11:30AM-12:00PM 0:30 Custom binning
12:00PM-1:30PM 1:30 Office Hours Lunch
1:30PM-2:30PM 1:00 Cell typing, CNV, trajectory analysis
2:30PM-4:30PM 2:00 Hands-on: Unsupervised clustering, cell typing, loupe browser
4:30PM-4:45PM 0:15 Day 6 Summary/Questions
3:45PM-4:00PM 0:15 Conclusion Closing and feedback