Mode of Communication: Bangla
Duration: 3 months
Frequency: Once a week (every Saturday)
Live Session Time:
Lecture (3 hours):
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM (USA Eastern Time / New York)
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (UK)
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Bangladesh)
Total Classes: 36-40 hours of live lecture
Assignments: Weekly (12 assignments total)
Community Coding Support: Through Google Classroom
Projects: Comprehensive projects
Contact: oxfordbiodiscoveryventures@gmail.com
Prerequisites: None. This course is tailored for complete beginners
Week 1: Introduction to R
Overview of R and its ecosystem.,Installing R and RStudio.,Basic R syntax, data types, and variable assignments.
Week 2: Data Structures in R
Creation, manipulation, and operations on vectors, ,lists, matrices and dataframe
Week 3: Control Structures and Functions
Conditional statements, loops, user-defined functions.
Week 4: Data Import, Export, and Cleaning
Import/export data from various formats, cleaning techniques
Week 5: Data Visualization in R
Basic plotting, ggplot2 graphics.
Week 6: Basic Statistical Coding in R
Mean, median, variance, probability distributions. ANOVA, t-tests, chi-square tests, linear regression.
Week 7: Introduction to RNAseq and Experimental Design
RNA sequencing technology, experiment design, data acquisition
Week 8: RNAseq Preprocessing and Count Matrix Generation
FastQC, alignment to a reference genome, quantification, Performing data quality control and different techniques for normalisation
Week 9: Differential Gene Expression Analysis and Downstream Analysis
Performing differential expression analysis, interpreting results.
Week 10: Introduction to scRNAseq
Preprocessing, normalization, introduction to Seurat.
Week 11: Advanced scRNAseq Analysis
Clustering, visualization, identifying cell types.
Week 12: Whole scRNAseq from scratch and Future Direction
scRNAseq analysis on a real dataset.
Mohammad Umer Sharif Shohan
DPhil Student
Department of Biochemistry,
University of Oxford,
Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
oxfordbiodiscoveryventures@gmail.com