McGill's Co-Curricular Record (CCR) is becoming the new Student Experience Record (SER), which will be launched in Fall 2025 in the myFuture platform. This change will enhance the way we recognize and document student learning experiences both inside and outside the classroom. See more information about the SER here.

August 1 is the last day to submit participation/attendance lists for activities that happened before July 1, 2025. Any participant lists received after August 1 will not be processed.

Event

Data Processing for Genetics

Wednesday, August 13, 2025 09:00to13:00
Education Building 3700 rue McTavish, Montreal, QC, H3A 1Y2, CA
Data Processing for Genetics

MyInvolvement pages are for in-person attendees only. To register for the online session, please use the Microsoft Forms link:

Participants that are not part of the McGill Community are also invited to register with the Microsoft Forms link.

Learning your data: Data Processing of Genetic Data.

Description: Processing open access genetic data is often a vital step for many human genetic projects, but the process of ensuring that a dataset is updated and clean can be opaque. In this tutorial, students will walk through the process of creating their own dataset from publicly accessible sources. This tutorial will teach students how to understand the formatting of common genetic data formats, update their genomic build, perform standard quality control measures, and carry out standard genetic research techniques such as Principal Component Analyses and Genome-Wide Association Studies.

Prerequisites: Basic Python Knowledge
Prior experience with Scikit-Allele is helpful but not necessary.

**IMPORTANT NOTICE: Attendance for McGill graduate students and postdoctoral fellows is subsidized by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. All other attendees such as undergraduate students, interns and/or graduate students from other institutions are required to purchase a ticket to cover organizational and staffing costs. To complete your registration, you must e-transfer $10 (undergraduate student/trainee) $25 (staff) or $100 (faculty) to workshop-micm [at] mcgill.ca within 24 hours of RSVP'ing to this event. If we do not receive your e-transfer, you will have given up your spot.

Online Event Instructions

MyInvolvement pages are for in-person attendees only. To register for the online session, please use the Microsoft Forms link.

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