Schedule
The CRI Bioinformatics Bootcamp will take place Saturday, May 16, 2026 through Thursday, May 21, 2026 at Signia by Hilton La Cantera Resort & Spa, San Antonio, Texas.
| 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 | ||
| 5:30PM-6:30PM | 1:00 | Office Hours | ||
| 7:00PM | Welcome Dinner, Onsite | |||
| 2 (Sun) | 9:00AM-9:30AM | 0:30 | R Workshop | Types of analysis: Clustering concepts and correlation |
| 9:30AM-12:00PM | 2:30 | Hands-on: Dimension reduction methods, computing correlation | ||
| 12:00PM-1:30PM | 1:30 | Office Hours | Lunch | |
| 1:30PM-2:30PM | 1:00 | Bulk RNA sequencing | Introduction to sequencing data processing and analysis | |
| 2:30PM-2:45PM | 0:15 | Introduction to rnabio.org, course philosophy, and AI plans | ||
| 2:45PM-3:00PM | 0:15 | Introduction to bulk RNAseq dataset | ||
| 3:00PM-3:15PM | 0:15 | Break | ||
| 3:15PM-4:00PM | 0:45 | Hands-on: Exploring RNAseq data in IGV | ||
| 4:00PM-5:00PM | 1:00 | Hands-on: DE analysis with DESeq2 | ||
| 5:00PM-6:00PM | 1:00 | Office Hours | ||
| 7:00PM-9:00PM | Dinner, Texas River Walk Bar | |||
| 3 (Mon) | 9:00AM-9:45AM | 0:45 | Bulk RNA sequencing | Hands-on: DE analysis with DESeq2 |
| 9:45AM-10:45AM | 1:00 | Hands-on: Advanced DE visualization | ||
| 10:45AM-12:00PM | 1:15 | DESeq2 AI Integration: Demo and practical exercise | ||
| 12:00PM-1:30PM | 1:30 | Office Hours | Lunch | |
| 1:30PM-3:00PM | 1:30 | Hands-on: Pathway analysis | ||
| 3:00PM-3:30PM | 0:30 | Q&A for Bulk RNA sequencing | ||
| 3:30PM-4:30PM | 1:00 | Single cell RNA sequencing | Introduction to scRNAseq methods and analysis | |
| 4:30PM-5:00PM | 0:30 | Introduction to scRNAseq dataset and loupe demonstration | ||
| 5:30PM-7:00PM | 1:30 | Office Hours | ||
| 7:00PM | Dinner, On your own | |||
| 4 (Tue) | 9:00AM-10:30AM | 1:30 | Single cell RNA sequencing | Hands-on: Quality assesment and clustering |
| 10:30AM-12:00PM | 1:30 | Hands-on: Cell typing | ||
| 12:00PM-1:30PM | 1:30 | Office Hours | Lunch | |
| 1:30PM-2:30PM | 1:00 | Advanced single cell | Hands-on: Differential expression analysis | |
| 2:30PM-3:30PM | 1:00 | Hands-on: Gene set and regulatory pathway | ||
| 3:30PM-5:00PM | 1:30 | Open Lab: Single cell AI integration | ||
| 5:30PM-7:00PM | 1:30 | Office Hours | ||
| 7:00PM | Dinner, On your own | |||
| 5 (Wed) | 9:00AM-10:30AM | 1:30 | Advanced single cell | Cancer cell identification |
| 10:30AM-12:00PM | 1:30 | Trajectory analysis | ||
| 12:00PM-1:30PM | 1:30 | Office Hours | Lunch | |
| 1:30PM-2:45PM | 1:15 | Spatial transcriptomics | Introduction to Xenium: experimental planning, panels, and best practices | |
| 2:45PM-3:00PM | 0:15 | Break | ||
| 3:00PM-4:00PM | 1:00 | Xenium cell segmentation, panel design, mounting a shared drive | ||
| 4:00PM-5:00PM | 1:00 | Hands-on: Xenium Explorer | ||
| 5:00PM-6:00PM | 1:00 | Office Hours | ||
| 7:00PM-9:00PM | Dinner, Pinstack | |||
| 6 (Thu) | 9:00AM-10:15AM | 1:15 | Spatial transcriptomics | Introduction to Visium HD: experimental planning, data pre-processing |
| 10:15AM-11:30PM | 1:15 | Seurat objects, motifs and neighborhood clustering (Banksy, Grafiti) | ||
| 11:30AM-12:00PM | 0:30 | Cell typing, CNV, trajectory analysis | ||
| 12:00PM-1:30PM | 1:30 | Office Hours | Lunch | |
| 1:30PM-2:15PM | 0:45 | Hands-on: Unsupervised clustering, cell typing | ||
| 2:15PM-2:45PM | 0:30 | Hands-on: Loupe browser | ||
| 2:45PM-3:00PM | 0:15 | Conclusion | Wrap-up |