Expanding Data-Intensive Teaching at Johns Hopkins University by Hosting the Practical Genomics Workshop on SciServer

Sarah Wheelan (Oncology, School of Medicine)

Jai Won Kim (IDIES, Krieger School of Arts & Science)

Jonathon Pevsner (Neurology, Kennedy Krieger Institute)

Luigi Marchionni (Neurology, School of Medicine)

Frederick Tan (Bioinformatics, Carnegie Institution)

We will create a robust platform for teaching students how to execute and interpret nontrivial genomics workflows. We plan to combine our longstanding experience in teaching R and Unix with the flexible and powerful SciServer platform, developed within the IDIES. We will adapt existing content to SciServer and will create new content that leads students through reproducible analysis of truly large-scale datasets, that are realistic examples of what they will encounter in their own work. Explanatory video tutorials will be created as well, enabling independent study.


IDIES logo