July 15-17, 2025
Tuesday - Thursday
Germantown, MD
The Bioscience Education Center
9:00am-5:00pm
1 Hour Lunch Break
This in depth lecture and hands-on computer based laboratory workshop is ideal for those bench and research scientists who have little or no bioinformatics background and are seeking a comprehensive workshop on the bioinformatics analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, particularly DNA-seq, RNA-seq, and ChIP-seq.
 | Lecture and Hands-on Interactive Training |
 | Team taught by active researchers |
 | Thumbnail drive with Lectures and Workshop material |
 | Space limited to 24 participants |
 | Registration Fee: $995 |
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"Very informative workshop with a very knowledgable lecturer. Covered the various aspects of NGS and provided guidance I needed."
Marquita Gittens-St. Hilaire
University of the West Indies (Cave Hill)
Intro to Next Generation Sequencing 10/16
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"Bio-Trac offers wonderful workshops that provide up-to-date, useful technological information and knowledge important for my research applications."
Thuy Phung, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Intro to NGS 10/16
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This introductory workshop on NGS was quite useful and educating for me. Being totally new to the next generation sequencing field and bioinformatics area, I learned bioinformatic skills to a very comfortable level. Thanks to this workshop for making the complex NGS Analytic details so simple and well controlled. I am glad that I attended this workshop.
Parveen Parason
Boston Children’s Hospital, HMS, Boston
Intro to NGS 10/16
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"I enjoyed it extremely. Also learned basics on Next-Gen sequencing even though we are performing these studies in my laboratory."
Anil K. Chauhan
Saint Louis University
Intro to NGS 10/16
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"This was a VERY useful course. With bioinformatics being the limiting step, I now feel confident research will proceed much faster without having to wait for help!!"
Diana V. Pastrana
NCI
Intro to NGS 10/16
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"This was a great workshop to become acquainted with Next Generation Sequencing Technologies and applications. I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in an in-depth hands-on course covering relevant NGS bioinformatics and command line tools. Great experience!"
Cara Schafer
Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
Intro to NGS 10/16
Course Director
Allissa Dillman, PhD
This workshop provides a strong foundation of introductory information before moving on to the hands-on analysis portion of the program during the lecture hours.
Students are assigned personal cloud computing accounts to process real big data as an overnight assignment during the program.
Laptops are supplied for the daytime instruction hours but you are welcome to bring your own. Students will need access to their own laptop for the evening assignments. Mac, PC, or Linux will work, Mac is preferred.
Introduction to NGS and DNA-seq Analysis with Galaxy Hands-on
- Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Including Library Construction and Details on Illumina’s Technology
- Introduction to DNA-seq analysis with Galaxy hands-on and computational lab I
RNA-seq and ChIP-seq Analysis with Galaxy Hands-on
- Introduction to RNA-seq analysis with Galaxy and computational lab 2
- Introduction to ChIP-seq analysis with Galaxy and computational lab 2
- Introduction to command-line with hands-on
NGS Analysis in Command-line with Hands-on
- Introduction to Command-line with Hands-on
- RNA-seq Analysis in Command-line with Hands-on
- DNA-seq Analysis in Command-line with Hands-on
- ChIP-seq Analysis in Command-line with Hands-on
- Discussion: After the Training: How to start doing NGS analysis on your own
Dr. Allissa Dillman is the founder and CEO of BioData Sage LLC, a company focused on providing a holistic approach to data science integration in the biomedical and biological science fields. Dr. Dillman offers data science strategic planning, including the usage of appropriate tools, platforms, datasets, and reproducible practices. BioData Sage works with clients in industry, academia, government, and the nonprofit sector, creating and supporting training programs on data science, cloud computing, and the tools and standards for reproducible data science practices for scientific and lay communities.
Dr. Dillman worked at NIH for over 10 years and most recently served as the workforce development and community engagement lead for the Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS). She built and executed data science integration programs bringing in undergraduates through mid-level data scientists to tackle NIH’s complex data ecosystem. Allissa has focused specifically on lowering the barriers of entry for data science and cloud computing by building train-the-trainer programs for STEM educators from low-resourced schools and facilitating data science training programs for students at HBCUs, MSIs, and HSIs. She has coordinated and participated as a judge, mentor, and team lead in over 50 hackathons in academia, industry, government, and nonprofit sectors. Dr. Dillman has contributed to over 50 scientific publications and has a long-standing research interest in using bioinformatic tools and data science techniques to answer a wide variety of biological questions. Dr. Dillman received her Ph.D. in computational neuroscience as part of the graduate partnership program between NIH and the Karolinska Institute, Sweden, in 2014.
At Bio-Trac, Dr. Dillman directs a Next Generation Sequencing workshop; co-directs several workshops including “R for Research Scientist” and “RNA-Seq: Principles, Methods and Computational Analysis” as well as an active instructor in the Single Cell RNA-Seq workshop.
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