Participants selection

NGSchool aims to deepen and broaden the Bioinformatics knowledge and skills of all participants.

The ideal participant should:

  • have basic understanding of Biology - be able to design and follow experiments, recognize the flaws in experimental design, understand the strengths and limitations of used methods;

  • have basic understanding of Statistics - understand the basic concepts such as probability, p-value, FDR, basic distributions and simple statistical tests;

  • have some knowledge of Bioinformatics - be able to write scripts, as well as design and follow bioinformatics pipelines;

  • use the skills later on and not be over-experienced.

We want everybody to learn something new and use the knowledge later on. If you are experienced in most covered topics, please consider organising a workshop or becoming our partner.

Registration form

Every year we design the registration form in a way that will help us assess how well the applicants match the ideal participant profile. We also want to give the potential participants an idea of which areas and topics to revise before the school.

We strive to keep the form as simple as possible, while at the same time making sure that it enables a fair and informed selection process. We understand that filling the form might be time-consuming and, to allow you to work on it throughout the registration period, we provide an option to save an incomplete application. You may edit all the answers before the registration deadline.

We will publish the correct answers (and sample code for computational tasks) together with the detailed report on the scores after the registration deadline.
The motivational part of the application is assessed by the selection committee, and participants are selected based on both, their motivation and quiz section.

Selection results

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We hope that you’ll enjoy the registration process! Good luck! :)