This workshop teaches data management and analysis for genomics research including:

• best practices for organization of bioinformatics projects and data, 
• use of command line utilities, 
• use of command line tools to analyze sequence quality and perform variant calling, and 
• connecting to and using cloud computing.

No prior experience with the tools covered in the workshop is necessary, however, learners are expected to have some familiarity with biological concepts, including the concept of genomic variation within a population.

This workshop will occur June 15-18, 2026 from 1:00pm-5:00pm each day. By the end of the workshop, learners will be able to:

• structure their metadata, organize and document their genomics data and bioinformatics workflow, and access data on the NCBI sequence read archive (SRA) database,
• navigate their file systems, create, copy, move, and remove files and directories, and automate repetitive tasks using scripts and wildcards,
• use command-line tools to perform quality control, align reads to a reference genome, and identify and visualize between-sample variation, and
• work with Amazon AWS cloud computing and transfer data between their local computer and cloud resources.

This is an official Data Carpentry workshop and will follow its style, curriculum, and code of conduct to provide a welcoming and interactive environment for learning the basics of working with data.

Registration is required and closes on Monday, June 8, 2026.

For any additional information or questions, please contact Craig Grosch (grosscra@msu.edu), Research Computing Facilitator at MSU's Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (ICER).