Precourse preparations

Required competences

Knowledge

You should meet the learning outcomes of First Steps with R in Life Sciences.

While this course is designed for beginners in multiomics data integration, knowledge of fundamental biological concepts related to gene expression (RNA-seq), chromatin accessibility (ATAC-seq), histone modifications (ChIP-seq), and DNA methylation is highly recommended. Basic to intermediate R programming skills are required as participants will be challenged with more coding and interpretation exercises. We recommend you can confidently handle data manipulation and basic functions in R. Please evaluate your R skills here.

Technical

Attendees should have a Wi-Fi enabled computer. An online R and RStudio environment will be provided. In order to access that environment your computer needs to be able to access http websites (not https). You can check this by browsing to http://www.httpforever.com. However, in case you wish to perform the practical exercises on your own computer, please take a moment to install the following before the course:

• R version > 4.2.
• Latest RStudio version, the free version is perfectly fine.
• The R packages necessary for the course. Find the renv to install them here.