Genetic Diseases - exome and complete genome sequencing and interpretation - March 2013

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  Genetic Diseases - exome and complete genome sequencing and interpretation

  Lausanne, 25-28 March 2013

  Course description
  This course will focus on genome-wide analysis of variation, including GWAS, variant identification and variant interpretation. The fourth day will be dedicated to a mini-symposium: "Clinical research in the era of deep sequencing".
  
  Requirements
  Laptop with WiFi; knowledge of UNIX command-line preferred (for practicals).
  
  The practical sessions will use virtual machines (VMs). Therefore, before coming to the course, please download and install VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads for your laptop operating system. About 30GB of free hard disk space will be required for the VirtualBox software and the VMs.
  
  General instructions to install VirtualBox and the VMs can be found here - please adapt accordingly:
  http://edu.isb-sib.ch/mod/resource/view.php?id=894
  
  
  Registration
  Registration is closed.