Learners

This page brings together bioinformatics training materials developed by the Sydney Informatics Hub. These resources support researchers, students, and research support staff who use computational and data-intensive approaches in the life sciences.

The materials include hands-on workshops, short courses, and recorded webinars, and are designed to be practical and accessible. Our materials are focused on real research scenarios and suitable for learners from a range of backgrounds and experience levels. Many of these materials have been developed in collaboration with partner organisations: Australian BioCommons, QCIF, NCI, Pawsey Supercomputing Research Center, UNSW Structural Biology Facility, Monash Bioinformatics Platform, and Seqera.

If you have questions about suitability, access, or training opportunities, please contact us.

Topic	Course	Description
Bioinformatics	What exactly is bioinformatics?	Introduction to bioinformatics experiments
Genomics	Getting started with germline genomics	Introduction to germline mapping and variant calling
Transcriptomics	Getting started with RNAseq	Introduction to differential expression analysis with bulk RNAseq data
Transcriptomics	Getting started with spatial omics	Introduction to spatial transcriptomics
Functional enrichment	Making sense of gene lists with FEA	Introduction to functional enrichment analysis
Structural biology	Protein structure prediction	Introduction to structural prediction with tools like Alphafold
Pipelines	Nextflow for the Life Sciences	Introduction to building and runing Nextflow pipelines
Pipelines	Nextflow on HPC	Configure and run Nextflow pipelines on HPC
Pipelines	Configuring nf-core	Configure nf-core pipelines for your needs
HPC	Scaling your workflows to HPC	Foundational concepts of HPC as they relate to bioinformatics
HPC	Introduction to NCI Gadi	Quick start guide for using NCI's Gadi HPC
HPC	Where to go when your bioinformatics outgrows your compute	Explainer of national computational infrastructure for bioinformatics