Learning Material
Python workshop materials and solutions
- Material and solutions across 4 introductory Python workshops. Intended for complete beginners. Topics covered include:
Introductory primers
- Introduction to R and RStudio.
- What is R/RStudio?
- How do I access and navigate RStudio?
- Basic functionality
- Useful resources
- Introduction to Omics.
- Intro to high dimensional data (HDD).
- What ‘omics’ is and where it fits into the realms of HDD.
- Possibilities and challenges.
- Introduction to genetics, genomics and genome-wide association studies.
- Basics of genetics and “complex” disorders.
- Importance of the Human Genome Project.
- Basic genome-wide methodology: introduction to GWAS.
- Importance of genomics in the wider “omics” field.
- Going further: Introduction to polygenic scoring.
- Multiple testing challenges facing GWAS approaches.
- Polygenic scoring and how this can provide additional insights to standard GWAS outputs.
- Within-trait vs cross-trait approaches.
- Working example.