Workshops

The Bioinformatics Centre at ICAR-IISR delivers world-class workshops at the forefront of Bioinformatics and its applications. The Bioinformatics Workshops offered focuses on training students and academicians in leading technologies and the latest methods being used in computational biology to work with these data. These include high-throughput sequencing data, protein-protein interaction data, pathway analysis, metabolomics, epigenomics data and all the visual, statistical and command-line tools necessary to perform bioinformatics work.

Admission to each notified workshop is on a competitive basis and the following criteria may be considered for evaluation of the application form:

your strength in molecular biology
your knowledge in Windows, Mac, and basic OS
your skills in UNIX
your programming knowledge
your current use of bioinformatics tools and resources
the reason(s) for which you wish to attend the bioinformatics workshop

Life Science meets Programming. (13-15 September)

A three days hands-on workshop was organised by the Bioinformatics Centre, ICAR- Indian Institute of Spices Research, Kozhikode from 13-15 September 2022 for Research Scholars, Scientists and Assistant Professors. The inaugural talk was delivered by Dr. Santhosh J Eapen, former Director, ICAR-IISR. The sessions were handled by Ms. Sona Charles, Mr. MukeshSankar S and Mr. Jayarajan from ICAR-IISR, Dr. Prashanth N Suravajhala from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mr.Subeesh A from ICAR - Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal and Dr. Merlin Lopez from MS Swaminathan Research Foundation. The workshop included theory as well as hands-on sessions on basic Bioinformatics, introduction to R, Python, Linux and Galaxy. 15 participants were selected from over 200 applicants for the workshop from various ICAR institutes, Universities and colleges. The questions from the participants were answered during the discussion.

R for Biologists. (6-8 October)

A three days hands-on workshop was organised by the Bioinformatics Centre, ICAR- Indian Institute of Spices Research, Kozhikode from 6-8 October, 2021 for PG students, Research Scholars and Project Fellows / JRFs. The sessions we handled by Ms. Sona Charles, Dr. Divya P Syamaladevi, Dr. Santhosh J Eapen from ICAR-IISR and Dr. Sreekumar J from ICAR-CTCRI, Thiruvananthapuram. The workshop included theory as well as hands-on sessions on basic Bioinformatics, introduction to R, statistics using R and data visualization using R packages. 48 participants were selected from over 150 applicants for the workshop from various ICAR/ SAUs and colleges. The questions from the participants were answered during the discussion.

Short-term training / workshops

NGSDAT 2019 - DBT Funded training on Bioinformatics for metagenome data analysis
19 Mar 2019 - 22 Mar 2019, 19 participants

Workshop in Basic Bioinformatics
20 Mar 2018 - 21 Mar 2018, 40 participants

Training on Bioinformatics for Transcriptome Sequencing (NGSDAT 2017)
20 Mar 2017 - 25 Mar 2017, 14 participants

Training on Bioinformatics for Whole Genome Sequencing (NGSDAT 2016)
27 Jan 2016 - 30 Jan 2016, 16 participants

Training on NGS: Data Analysis & Annotation
17 Mar 2014 - 20 Mar 2014, 15 participants

Training on NGS: Data Analysis & Annotation
12 Mar 2013 - 16 Mar 2013, 14 participants

Training on Cheminformatics- Tools & Applications
19 Feb 2013 - 22 Feb 2013, 14 participants

Training on Whole genome sequencing and annotation
21 Feb 2012 - 25 Feb 2012, 14 participants

Testimonials

“The workshop was excellent and well organized. The lectures and hands-on were very useful in learning and using programming tools like R, Linux, Python. Overall it is a good start for me for using programming tools in genomics. Introduction to Galaxy is very useful. I have some transcriptome data and I hope I may be able to do some analysis. This workshop has certainly given confidence in data handling. I thank ICAR-IISR and the organisers, especially Dr. Sona Charles for conducting this workshop in a fruitful manner. I look forward for future help from the Bioinformatics team of IISR. Thanks.”
- Shahnawaz Ali, Sr. Scientist, ICAR-DCR

“I just had the basics with me before attending, but the 3 day workshop helped me to use those basics to have good analysis and visualization .Thank you for organizing such a beautiful virtual session. Thank you”
-Neha Rose Pious, Junior Bioinformatics Scientist, Anderson Diagnostic Services Private Limited

“I heard about R programming before, but never tried to explore as I wasn't knowing the basics. The workshop helped and inspired me immense to learn, practice and explore more on R programming.”
- Aswathi M K (St. Joseph's College, Lecturer, Devagiri)

“Being a plant breeder, biplot techniques would be helpful in analysing multi-environmental data. The training also has given a confidence to explore R in different dimensions for statistical analysis. This would be helpful in representing the data in the form of graphs in our future publications”.
- Ameena Premnath., PhD, TNAU

Contact Us

Dr. Sona Charles, MSc, ARS Coordinator

Bioinformatics Centre

ICAR-Indian Institute of Spices Research
P.B. No. 1701, Marikunnu Post, Kozhikode - 673 012, Kerala, India

Phone : (+91) 495 2731410 Extn. 202

sona.charles@icar.gov.in

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