Last year the Community of Bioinformatics Software Developers (CDSB in Spanish) organized a one week workshop designed to train R users how to write R packages and ideally contribute them to Bioconductor. The workshop itself was a success as described in our summary post about the event. However, we didn’t want to stop there. We formed CDSB and teamed up with TIB (“Talleres Internacionales de Bioinformática”) from NNB-UNAM with the goal of simulating the BioC yearly meeting where attendees can learn R, mature as R users and become R developers.
About 10 months ago we announced our plans to start a new community of R/Bioconductor developers in Mexico and Latin America. The National Bioinformatics Node ( NNB-UNAM in Spanish) has organized workshops in bioinformatics and R since 2006 and more frequently since 2010. Last year, 2018, there were five simultaneous one week workshops:
Introduction to R and RStudio
Exploratory data analysis (EDA) of biological data with R
EDA of RNA-seq data and differential expression studies
Organizing an event is a lot of work, much more than you plan for it. But harvesting the fruits of a successful event makes the workload worth it.
In July, we kicked off the first Bioconductor Latin American Developers Workshop 2018 (LatAmBioc2018). The main goals of this meeting were to encourage the development of the Bioconductor project in Mexico and to start a community of Mexican bioinformatic software developers – the Community of Bioinformatic Software Developers (CDSB, from its acronym in Spanish).
This blog post was written by ME Martinez-Sanchez, S Muñoz, M Carrillo, E Azpeitia, D Rosenblueth.
In this blog post we will describe the package rGriffin (Martinez-Sanchez, Muñoz, Carrillo, Azpeitia, et al., 2018) that was one of the projects developed during the TIB2018-BCDW. We hope to continue developing Griffin and rGriffin (Martinez-Sanchez, Muñoz, Carrillo, Azpeitia, et al., 2018). If you have ideas, suggestions or bugs, please contact us via rGriffin GitHub repo.
Community of Bioinformatics Software Developers Workshop webpage: https://comunidadbioinfo.github.io/post/r-bioconductor-developers-workshop-2018/
Level: intermediate - advanced
Language: english
When: July 30 - August 3, 2018
Where: Auditorium of the Center for Genomic Sciences, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Twitter: #CDSBMexico
Facebook: @CDSBMexico
GitHub: https://github.com/ComunidadBioInfo/R-BioConductor-Developers-Workshop-2018
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Requirements Requirements prior knowledge
Participants should have basic knowledge of programming language R: variable assignment, reading files: read.csv, read.delim, read.table; data structures: matrix, dataframe, list; data types: character, numeric, factor, logical, etc; installation and use of packages.