Register: AI for Bioinformatics Bootcamp

About you

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What is your full name?Required

What is your email address?Required

Use your institutional address. Everything about the course, including account setup, goes here.

What is your lab or PI name?Required

If you are not in a lab, enter your department, program, or core facility.

What is your role?Required

Your setup

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What operating system does the laptop you will bring run?Required

Everything runs in a browser on Foundry Connect, so any of these will work. We ask so setup instructions are written for the right mix, and so we can find a machine for anyone who needs one.

Which of these accounts do you already have?Required

Both accounts are required before the first session. Not having them yet is completely normal: request an HPC account here, and we will help you with Foundry Connect.

Foundry Connect UMass Chan HPC cluster Neither yet Not sure

If you have either account, what are your usernames?Optional

This lets us confirm your access works before the first session. Skip it if you do not have an account yet.

How comfortable are you with the command line?Required

There is genuinely no wrong answer. The quick start that opens Session 1 is built for the first option.

I have never used it A little, following instructions someone gave me I am comfortable working in it

Your research

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Which data types do you work with now, or expect to within the next year?Required

Bulk RNA-Seq Single-cell RNA-Seq Spatial transcriptomics ATAC-seq or epigenomics Proteomics or metabolomics Microscopy or imaging Clinical or tabular data I do not have data yet Other

How you use AI today

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Which AI tools do you currently use for work?Required

Select everything you have used in the last few months, even occasionally. There is no expectation that you use any of these.

How do you mainly use AI today?Required

Finding and summarizing papers Writing or editing text Writing or debugging code Explaining concepts I do not know yet Checking or critiquing my own work Analyzing or interpreting data I do not use AI yet

Data and safety

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Does your research involve human subject data?Required

We only need the category, so that Session 1 is pitched at the people in the room.

Yes, including identifiers or PHI Yes, but only de-identified data No human subject data Not sure

How confident are you about what is and is not safe to put into an AI tool?Required

Please answer honestly. Most people pick one of the last two.

Very confident, I know the rules that apply to my data Somewhat confident Not confident I have not really thought about it before

Where you are starting

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Before we start, how would you rate yourself on each of these?Required

This is a baseline, not a test, and low ratings are expected. We will ask these same six at the end so you can see your own progress.

Is there anything else you want this bootcamp to cover?Optional

A tool you want to learn, a technique, an analysis you are stuck on, or anything we have not asked about.

Have you taken the Sequence Analysis Bootcamp or a similar course before?Required

Yes No I started one but did not finish