Dear all,

registrations are now open for the Physalia online course: RNA-seq Data Analysis for Beginners

Dates: 10–19 February 2026

Course website: https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/rnaseq-4-beginners/

This seven-day, hands-on course takes you from raw FASTQ files to publication-ready figures and pathway analyses — no programming experience required.

Designed for wet-lab biologists new to bioinformatics, the course provides:

• 60% hands-on practice, 40% concise concept teaching
• Cloud-based environment (no installation needed)
• Reproducible, publication-quality results
• Live support and active Q&A

By the end of the course, you’ll learn to:

• Set up reproducible RNA-seq analysis environments
• Process raw data into gene counts
• Perform QC, normalization, and differential expression (DESeq2, edgeR, limma-voom)
• Create publication-ready figures (PCA, heatmaps, volcano plots)
• Run functional enrichment (GO, KEGG, GSEA)
• Handle batch effects and prepare GEO submissions