Sick of using only Microsoft Word to write papers or PowerPoint to make presentations? Want people to actually see your thesis or capstone after you've left school and have it published online!? Esri Story Maps are web applications that let authors combine beautiful, interactive maps with narrative text, striking images, charts and graphs and multimedia including video and recordings. Impress your professors, bosses or friends with these attractive and easy to use applications while bringing your story to life. Make them accessible online for all to see well after you've left Tufts!

Interested in learning the basics of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) using ESRI's desktop software ArcGIS pro? This is the workshop for you!

Tired of relying on expensive point-and-click GIS software for your geospatial analysis needs? Come and learn how to utilize free open-source Python libraries to implement and automate your raster processing workflows! We will practice raster analysis in Python by conducting a risk assessment and cover the following:

This is a hands-on workshop designed to introduce you to the wonderful world of programming and get you acquainted with the popular and easy-to-use programming language Python. We will provide a whirlwind overview of what Python is, why you might want to use it, and how to do so. Then we'll dive into programming basics and discuss:

This workshop is designed to get you started with the statistical programming language R. We will provide an overview of the R language and the RStudio interface and compare them to other commonly used statistical programs and programming languages. Then we will walk through an R script and cover the following:

Adelaide Rhodes, Senior Bioinformatics Scientist, will be presenting an overview of shotgun metagenomic sequencing data analysis using the Tufts High Performance Computing Cluster. 

Jason Laird, Bioinformatics Scientist, will present an overview of 16S Metabarcoding data analysis using the Tufts High Performance Computing Cluster On Demand RStudio.

Jason Laird and Adelaide Rhodes have recently joined the Research Technology Team that maintains the HPC Cluster among other high demand computer resources at Tufts University.

We want to get to know the students, staff and faculty of Tufts, so feel free to drop by during one of our open office hours to get acquainted with our asynchronous, recorded and live training materials or just to ask a question about bioinformatics in general.

We have the ability to help Tufts University affiliates with any sequencing data needs.