Introduction to R and Data Visualization for Bioinformatics

This workshop provides a basic introduction to the R language and visualizing data. No prior experience with R or any other programming language is expected or required. This workshop is designed to give biologists fundamental skills for manipulating data and creating visualizations in an R environment with a focus on bioinformatic data.

Included topics:

• Introduction to the R language
• Data structures and conditional programming (for loops, functions, etc)
• Multiple techniques for plotting in R
• Building statistical models and visualizing outputs
• Use of common bioinformatic packages
• Analysis and interpretation of sequencing datasets
• Examples will include visualization of gene amplicon and single cell sequencing data