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04/09/2026 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering several trainings that cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. These trainings will help participants Read More...

02/12/2026 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering several trainings that cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. These trainings will help participants Read More...

04/28/2025 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering a several trainings that cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. These trainings will help Read More...

12/09/2024 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This four-part lecture series will Read More...

12/18/2023 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This four-part lecture series will Read More...

07/26/2023 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This four-part lecture series will Read More...

03/15/2023 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This five-part lecture series will Read More...

05/14/2026 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering several trainings that cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. These trainings will help participants Read More...

11/08/2024 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This four-part lecture series will Read More...

11/28/2023 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This four-part lecture series will Read More...

06/20/2023 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This four-part lecture series will Read More...

03/14/2023 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This five-part lecture series will Read More...

03/07/2023 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This five-part lecture series will Read More...

04/25/2025 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering this two-part online training for non-statisticians interested in understanding the basic, intuitive thinking behind the Read More...

12/03/2024 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This four-part lecture series will Read More...

12/12/2023 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This four-part lecture series will Read More...

07/24/2023 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This four-part lecture series will Read More...

01/25/2022 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering a class geared to cover the general concepts behind common statistical tests. This two-part lecture Read More...

07/01/2020 - Registration: https://www.nihlibrary.nih.gov/training/overview-common-statistical-tests-6 In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering a class geared to cover the general Read More...

05/01/2025 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering this two-part online training for non-statisticians interested in understanding the basic, intuitive thinking behind the Read More...

03/17/2025 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering a several trainings that cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. These trainings will help Read More...

04/30/2024 - What’s the difference between “regular” statistics (i.e., what you may have been using in the past several years) and the “new” Bayesian Read More...

04/23/2024 - What’s the difference between “regular” statistics (i.e., what you may have been using in the past several years) and the “new” Bayesian Read More...

10/20/2023 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering a class to assist researchers in writing a manuscript. Participants will become familiar with statistical Read More...

10/18/2022 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering a class to assist researchers in writing a manuscript. Participants will become familiar with statistical Read More...

01/27/2022 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering a class geared to cover the general concepts behind common statistical tests. This two-part lecture Read More...

12/02/2020 - Register In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering a class geared to cover the general concepts behind common statistical tests. This two-part Read More...

12/01/2020 - Register In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering a class geared to cover the general concepts behind common statistical tests. This two-part Read More...

10/28/2020 - Register In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering a class to assist researchers in writing a manuscript. Participants will become familiar with Read More...

03/12/2026 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering several trainings that cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. These trainings will help participants Read More...

01/27/2026 - The SeqSPACE Planning Committee is pleased to announce the second webinar of our two-part webinar series highlighting the work of four junior investigators selected through our recent call for abstracts. Part 2 will feature presentations Read More...

08/08/2024 - What are common statistical analyses for binary data? What is the distribution of your binary dependent variable? What is the difference from normally distributed data? How do you model the binary outcome with multiple Read More...

06/20/2024 - What are common statistical analyses for continuous data? Can you check whether your continuous outcome is normally distributed? What are the methods when the data are not normal? How do you model the outcome Read More...

03/17/2021 - Presenter: Himel Mallick, PhD Senior Scientist, Biostatistics Merck Research Laboratories Abstract Identifying clinically actionable features that display differential abundance and expression patterns across experimental conditions is an important first step toward characterizing the multi-omics Read More...

10/11/2019 - This lecture will briefly review the steps involved in data analysis and how study design, hypothesis, and type of data and their distributions contribute to the choice of statistical tests. Statistical tests are used Read More...

12/02/2025 - The SeqSPACE Planning Committee is pleased to announce a two-part webinar series highlighting the work of four junior investigators selected through our recent call for abstracts. Part 1 will feature presentations by Dr. Jing Dong Read More...

02/10/2026 - In his seminal 2001 paper, the famous statistician Leo Breiman juxtaposed the inferential approach and the predictive approach to statistical analysis. I will begin this lecture with an overview of these two approaches. Then, I Read More...

10/01/2024 - Dr. Nusrat Rabbee’s book, “ Biomarker Analysis in Clinical Trials Using R ” offers practical guidance to statisticians on how to incorporate biomarker data analysis in clinical trial studies. In it, she discusses the appropriate Read More...

09/09/2025 - This session will provide an introduction to statistical tests for categorical/count data. We will cover basic theory and implementation of the Chi Square test, Fisher’s exact test, and the Hypergeometric Read More...

07/17/2025 - NIDDK Biostats Seminar Series: From Research Study Design to Collecting, Managing, and Analyzing Data. Learning Objectives 1. The learner should know the difference between observational studies, clinical trials (drug and non-drug studies), and secondary data ( Read More...

11/20/2024 - ggplot2 is a popular R package for data visualization that uses layers to build high quality plots. There are over 100 packages that extend the functionality of ggplot2. This session of the BTEP Coding Club Read More...

11/12/2024 - We will discuss statistical considerations in planning, executing, and interpreting experiments using animals. Topics will include interpreting minimally powered pilot studies, dealing with complex time series, and maximizing knowledge gain from limited resources. This Read More...

10/08/2024 - We will cover recently developed statistical approaches to the classification of BRCA2 variants using the functional-assay data generated by our NCI collaborators (Dr. Sharan’s lab). Our main objective is to illustrate how statistical Read More...

06/12/2024 - Join us for an engaging training session where we will examine the similarities and differences between machine learning and statistical differential gene expression (DGE) analysis using Qlucore Omics Explorer. Qlucore Omics Explorer is a Read More...

06/11/2024 - This talk will cover the basics of statistical resampling methods such as bootstrap, Monte Carlo, and permutations for estimating parameters and testing hypotheses.  We will discuss when you might want to use Read More...

11/15/2024 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This four-part lecture series will Read More...

12/04/2023 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This four-part lecture series will Read More...

06/27/2023 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This four-part lecture series will Read More...

03/08/2023 - In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering classes geared to cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. This five-part lecture series will Read More...

12/03/2024 - Sequencing Strategies for Population and Cancer Epidemiology Studies (SeqSPACE) Webinar Series The Sequencing Strategies for Population and Cancer Epidemiology Studies (SeqSPACE) webinar series began 10 years ago in November 2014. The series was designed to share Read More...

06/20/2024 - Dr. Irizarry will share findings demonstrating limitations of current workflows that are popular in single cell RNA-Seq data analysis. Specifically, he will describe challenges and solutions to dimension reduction, cell-type classification, and statistical significance Read More...

03/20/2023 - The purpose of this class is to introduce the fundamentals of conducting a meta-analysis. The focus will be on randomized clinical trials; however, the presenter will also briefly discuss the application of meta-analyses in Read More...

11/08/2024 - Learn microbiome analysis basics in R with phyloseq. This workshop will cover different types of analysis frequently used in microbiome studies, including sample diversity, community composition, and differential taxa. The techniques we learn will Read More...

10/03/2023 - Presented as part of the Sequencing Strategies for Population and Cancer Epidemiology Studies (SeqSPACE) Webinar Series Dr. Kushal Dey is an Assistant Member and Josie Robertson Investigator in the Department of Computational and Systems Read More...

03/19/2026 - In this talk, Dr. Carey will describe how Bioconductor approaches new challenges in supporting open method development and reproducible analyses in genomic data science. He will discuss aspects of the project that bear on Read More...

08/12/2025 - In this lecture, Dr. Mitrophanov will introduce ANOVA as a generalization of the t-test and explain its main purpose: to facilitate statistical hypothesis testing for several groups of observations. He will briefly review the Read More...

07/10/2024 - Qlucore Omics Explorer is a point-and-click software for analyzing various omics data including RNA sequencing (bulk and single cell), proteomics, and metabolomics. Participants will learn to perform QC, construct visualizations (ie. PCA, heatmap, volcano, Read More...

01/08/2026 - In this lesson, attendees will continue learning how to create publishable figures with ggplot2. Topics will include statistical transformations, coordinate systems, and themes.

09/13/2024 - This course provides an introduction to data analysis using R, focusing on conducting various statistical tests and generating commonly used statistical regression models. Participants will learn how to perform hypothesis testing, calculate descriptive statistics, Read More...

R is both a computational language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is open-source and widely used by scientists, not just bioinformaticians. Base packages of R are built into your initial installation, but Read More...

04/16/2026 - The ability to measure gene expression levels for individual cells (vs. pools of cells) and with spatial resolution is crucial to address many important biological and medical questions, such as the study of stem Read More...

02/26/2026 - Scientific discovery is increasingly limited not by data availability, but by our ability to integrate evidence, generate hypotheses, and iteratively test them at scale. Recent advances in foundation models and large language models suggest Read More...

01/29/2026 - In the final class of the Statistical Analysis of Research Data (SARD) series offered by NCI Center for Cancer Training participants will learn about: Multivariant data analysis Regression Non-parametric tools Goodness of fit tests Read More...

01/27/2026 - This is the third class of the Statistical Analysis of Research Data (SARD) series offered by NCI Center for Cancer Training. Here, participants will learn about: Bivariate statistics Linear regression Regression diagnostics This class Read More...

01/23/2026 - In the second class of Statistical Analysis of Research Data (SARD) hosted by NCI Center for Cancer Training, participants will learn about: Inferential statistics Two sample tests of means Small versus large sample consideration Read More...

01/23/2026 - This is the second class of the Statistical Analysis of Research Data (SARD) series offered by NCI Center for Cancer Training. In this class participants will learn about: Inferential statistics  Two sample Read More...

01/21/2026 - This is the first class of the Statistical Analysis of Research Data (SARD) series offered by NCI Center for Cancer Training. The focus for this session is univariate data analysis and participants will learn Read More...

12/09/2025 - This one-hour online training will provide a high-level overview of Python coding concepts, as well as some of the integrative development environments (IDEs, such as Jupyter notebooks ) used for Python coding. Python is a Read More...

11/04/2025 - This one-hour online training will provide a high-level overview of Python coding concepts, as well as some of the integrative development environments (IDEs,  such as Jupyter notebooks ) used for Python coding. Python Read More...

09/17/2025 - This one-hour online training will provide a high-level overview of Python coding concepts, as well as some of the integrative development environments (IDEs,  such as Jupyter notebooks ) used for Python coding. Python Read More...

07/09/2025 - From image analy i to federated learning and multimodal modeling, generative AI can be u ed to tudy ob ervational ucce ion acro cale and data type . At DCEG' Data cience and Engineering Re Read More...

06/18/2025 - This one-hour online training will provide a high-level overview of Python coding concepts, as well as some of the integrative development environments (IDEs,  such as Jupyter notebooks ) used for Python coding. Python is a Read More...

05/08/2025 - This one-hour online training will provide a high-level overview of Python coding concepts, as well as some of the integrative development environments (IDEs,  such as Jupyter notebooks ) used for Python coding. Python is a Read More...

04/08/2025 - Dive into the specialized use of mixed-effects models tailored to address the challenges of inter-reader variability in medical imaging studies. This presentation delves into how these models adeptly manage the random effects introduced by Read More...

03/25/2025 - Dr. Ben Raphael will describe computational methods developed in his lab to analyze large-scale biological data related to cancer evolution, genetic variants, and structural variation in cancer genomes. He’ll share combinatorial and statistical Read More...

03/13/2025 - UCSC Xena showcases seminal cancer genomics datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the Pan-Cancer Atlas, as well as the Genomic Data Commons, Pan-cancer Atlas of Whole Genomes, and the International Cancer Genome Read More...

03/12/2025 - Clustering is one of the fundamental unsupervised machine learning algorithms. It is often used to group quantitative proteomic or RNAseq expression data to suggest sub-types of a particular cancer. This presentation covers building a Read More...

01/22/2025 - This three hour online training covers QIAGEN’s CLC Genomics Workbench enables researchers to analyze NGS data without the use of command line and is a powerful tool for determining differential expression. Read More...

01/15/2025 - This session of the BTEP Coding Club will demonstrate how to use the R package “survival” to conduct a survival analysis of an example dataset.  Senior Programmer and Analyst, Duncan Donohue, PhD, will cover Read More...

01/14/2025 - This one-hour online training will cover a basic overview of the functionality of R programming language and RStudio. R is a programming language and open-source environment for statistical computing and graphics. & Read More...

01/14/2025 - In this talk, we will cover the basics of survival analysis as a statistical methodology developed for censored data. Special emphasis will be on visualizing survival data, comparing survival-time distributions for subject groups, and Read More...

12/10/2024 - This one-hour online training will provide a high-level overview of Python coding concepts, as well as some of the integrative development environments (IDEs,  such as Jupyter notebooks ) used for Python coding. Python Read More...

11/21/2024 - Join this webinar to gain insights from Dr. Qi Long, who will explore how LLMs offer a promising solution to data issues, especially those stemming from incomplete information.   Dr. Long will share his team' Read More...

11/12/2024 - This one-hour online training will provide a high-level overview of Python coding concepts, as well as some of the integrative development environments (IDEs,  such as Jupyter notebooks ) used for Python coding. Python Read More...

10/11/2024 - This one-hour online training will provide a high-level overview of Python coding concepts, as well as some of the integrative development environments (IDEs,  such as Jupyter notebooks ) used for Python coding. Python Read More...

09/12/2024 - This one-hour online training will cover a basic overview of the functionality of R programming language and RStudio. R is a programming language and open-source environment for statistical computing and graphics. & Read More...

08/14/2024 - In this introduction session, Dr. Yana Stackpole will discuss biologist-friendly ways to import and analyze RNAseq data in Qlucore, followed by integrated GSEA for biological interpretation.   She will pick a public cancer-related Read More...

08/07/2024 - This one-hour online training will provide a high-level overview of Python coding concepts, as well as some of the integrative development environments (IDEs,  such as Jupyter notebooks ) used for Python coding. Python is a Read More...

07/12/2024 - Python is a programming language used for data science, specifically: data analysis, statistical analysis, and visualization of results. This class will demonstrate integrated development and learning (IDE) platforms for learning Python, the fundamentals of Read More...

06/13/2024 - Python is a programming language used for data science, specifically: data analysis, statistical analysis, and visualization of results. This class will demonstrate integrated development and learning (IDE) platforms for learning Python, the fundamentals of Read More...

The primary means of running differential expression in Seurat is through the FindMarkers function. The main usage for this function is as follows: FindMarkers(object,ident.1= ..., ident.2=..., test.use="wilcox", min.pct = 0.01, logfc. Read More...

Differential expression analysis is the process of identifying genes that have a significant difference in expression between two or more groups. For many sequencing experiments, regardless of methodology, differential analysis lays the foundation of the Read More...

Listed below are the video recordings of past BTEP events (classes, seminars, workshops). Videos are hosted on various servers and may play slightly differently. Some videos may be downloaded for local viewing. Recorded Videos of Read More...

What is bioinformatics? Bioinformatics integrates biology, statistics, and computer science to develop and apply theory, methods, and tools for the collection, storage, and analysis of biological and related data. Bioinformatics plays a critical role in Read More...

Congratulations, your experiments have been completed and you have a large amount of data. Now, it’s time to analyze these data. But where do you begin? How can you gain the most meaning from Read More...

Clinicians and bench scientists (a.k.a., wet lab researchers) are at the forefront of scientific achievement. However, most, if not all contemporary projects involve robust scientific analysis, where the tools of exploration aren’t Read More...

One particular critique of differential expression in single cell RNASeq analysis is p-value "inflation," where the p-values get so small that there are far too many genes exist with p-values below 0.05, even after Read More...

1. Introduction and Learning Objectives This tutorial has been designed to demonstrate common secondary analysis steps in a scRNA-Seq workflow. We will start with a merged Seurat Object with multiple data layers representing multiple samples that Read More...

This lesson provides an introduction to R in the context of single cell RNA-Seq analysis with Seurat. Learning Objectives Learn about options for analyzing your scRNA-Seq data. Learn about resources for learning R programming. Learn Read More...

The NIH Library provides expert guidance on bioinformatics, biostatistics, data visualization, and data curation throughout the research process. Explore a variety of classes, on-demand trainings, resources, and services related to data science and bioinformatics available Read More...