The aim of the workshop is to train newly hired System Administrators and/or their representatives on systems administration of Unix type servers/infrastructure relevant for data management and storage for H3Africa affiliated projects and subsequent bioinformatics research.

The "Introduction to Biostatistics for Genome Wide Association testing" workshop provides an introduction to the basic concepts in biostatistics required for genome wide association studies, e.g. data types, experimental design, statistical tests, probabilities, R, etc. During the second week, basic statistical concepts relevant to population genetics and genome wide association tests will be introduced to build foundational knowledge for genome wide association studies. The workshop will consist of a series of theory and lectures during the morning sessions and ?hands on?

This workshop aims to introduce an interdisciplinary audience to the potential of GWAS and to key strategic considerations in designing and performing Genome-wide Association studies, as well as to bring all participants up to speed on the basic principles of human genetic variation, genotyping and disease scoring statistics.

This workshop provides an overview on medical population genetics, PLINK and basic statistics and practicals in order to build a foundational knowledgebase for genome wide association testing. The workshop will consist of a series of theory lectures and a ?hands on? practical lab session at the end.

The workshop involves theoretical lectures and practical sessions on analysis techniques for dealing with Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, including an introduction to programming for the study of large data sets of HIV and other genomic data.

The workshop will provide practical tips and guidance for delivery and development of bioinformatics training solutions. Discuss ongoing training community efforts for training sustainability, curriculum development and core competencies, and trainer recognition.

This will be a short practical course on Bioinformatics for biologists, molecular biologists or young researchers working in the field of biomedical or biological sciences who are interested in learning, in a practical way, how to build and explore gene and protein networks and how to place in a relational context (i.e. in a network-based context) the lists of genes or proteins, often derived from genomic or proteomic analyses.

Participants will learn about quality control and quality assurance steps of genome-wide data, basic GWAS analysis, construction of genetic risk scores, estimation of genome-wide SNP heritability, an introduction to family-based association approaches and an overview of meta-analytic techniques.

This workshop provides an introduction to the computational analyses of NGS data from pre-processing to the identification and annotation of genomic variants and the functional effects of those variants, as well as the use of pharmocogenomic databases.

This interactive workshop will provide an overview of data management, analysis and submission for H3Africa projects. It also provides an opportunity for Data Support Working Group members, who represent the H3Africa projects to engage with H3ABioNet and discuss their needs.