NEMHESYS NGS Master Class

COURSE OVERVIEW

Why NGS – why now?

Nowadays, next generation sequencing (NGS) has proven to play an increasingly important role in clinical decision- making –moving towards personalized medicine– where large-scale genomic information may critically help in the selection of the most appropriate/effective treatment modality for an individual patient.

Therefore, it is becoming more important for clinical and biomedical research professionals to become familiar with NGS technologies and how they can be implemented for better understanding of a patient’s disease and clinical course.

WHAT will I learn in this course?

LEARNING OUTCOMES

UNDERSTAND

NGS technologies, currently available solutions, the potential applications in the clinical and research fields, as well as NGS data formats & analysis tools.

LEARN

the essential resources and databases available for analyzing sequencing data and handling data interpretation.

COMPREHEND

the different steps of NGS data quality evaluation and analysis.

IMPLEMENT

NGS in your clinical routine and/or advance your research.

COURSE CONTENTS

The NGS Master Class is organized in 1 pre-course background and 5 modules covering the topics below. Then, each module is organized by increasing complexity, from basic to more advanced contents.

Pre-Course Background

The Pre-workshop Module is the welcome module, and it will give a general overview of the Master Class programme outlining the course organization and expectations.

Module - A

NGS in the Clinic

This module will provide an overview of well-established NGS technologies, such as DNA targeted sequencing and how it can be applied for patient care (examples of current applications), as well as more advanced technologies such as nanopore sequencing, single cell analytics, and RNA-seq, which can provide deeper insights into a patient’s disease.

Module - B

NGS Data Analysis

This module will provide a basic overview of the NGS data analysis, including file formats and how to analyze data, and a practical workshop based on an open-source and user-friendly resource such as Galaxy.

Module - C

NGS Implementation Issues

This module will address technical and regulatory barriers and risks, as well as the ethical problems, when applying NGS technologies for research and patient care.

Module - D

Linked Data & Knowledge Graph

This module will introduce Linked Data and Knowledge Graph concepts. The aim is to broaden the participants’ horizons, to place the contents and practices of the discipline in a more global context of the web of data, the semantic web and artificial intelligence.

Module - E

Entrepreneurship & Innovation

This workshop aims to improve innovation and entrepreneurial skills of the participants, and how their research can be spun off to improve patient care.

WHO is this course for?

This is a multidisciplinary training designed for clinical and biomedical research professionals, who are seeking to become familiar, and in the near future experts, with NGS technologies and are willing to apply into their routine clinical practice, labs, and research projects.

HOW is this course working?

MOODLE

The master class is going virtual and will make use of the online training platform Moodle, hosted by the University of Helsinki.

ACCESS

PRE-RECORDED LECTURES

The course will consist of pre-recorded lectures that will be gradually released according to the scheduled timeline. Additional supporting course materials will be provided.

Q & A

Participants are expected to view the pre-recordings after which they can post questions that will be addressed either in the eForum and the live Q&A sessions.

ASSESSMENTS & CERTIFICATE

At the end of each module, a short assessment will be opened and should be performed by each participant in order to get the certificate.

MOBILITY

The NEMHESYS programme will offer a mobility opportunity to selected participants from 1st and 2nd edition, in order to increase their knowledge and experience in the NGS field.

WHEN is this course taking place?

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