For Researchers

Below you can find links to videos and downloadable guides and templates to help with your research, as well as contact details for HCA groups. Please also check out our Policies and Procedures page for data release policies and atlas assembly guidelines, or the FAQ if you have questions about membership, funding, etc.

Education/Training Materials

Broad Classroom Discovery Guides

Analysis of single-cell RNA-seq dataread more

This course is aimed at researchers and technical workers who are or will be analyzing scRNA-seq data.

Github: https://github.com/broadinstitute/2020_scWorkshop

Authors: Orr Ashenberg, Dana Silverbush and Kirk Gosik

Getting started guide

Single cell RNA-seq – read more

This course will discuss some of the questions that can be addressed using scRNA-seq as well as the available computational and statistical methods available.

Authors: Martin Hemberg, Vladimir Kiselev, Tallulah Andrew, Jennifer Westoby, Davis McCarthy, Maren Büttner, Jimmy Lee, Krzysztof Polanski, Sebastian Y. Müller, Elo Madissoon, Stephane Ballereau, Maria Do Nascimento Lopes Primo, Rocio Martinez Nunez.

Zoom based bioinformatics tutorial for biologists

Author: Lior S Pachter


Podcast: Single Cell Science

Author: Luise Seeker and Sarah Jakel


Protocols


EMBL-EBI Train Online

Train online provides free courses on Europe’s most widely used data resources, created by experts at EMBL-EBI and collaborating institutes. You do not need to have any previous experience of bioinformatics to benefit from this training.

The following are a selection of courses available:

  • EMBL-EBI live webinars
  • Galaxy Training
  • Data Carpentry
  • Software Carpentry
  • Essentials 4 Data Support
  • MANTRA Research Data Management Training
  • Data Tree
  • How and why you should manage your research data: a guide for researchers
  • FAIR Data
  • FOSTER portal
  • OpenLearn
  • FutureLearn
  • edX
  • Coursera

Publications

Ethics

The Ethics Working Group (EWG) of the HCA is developing an Ethics Toolkit to help members of the HCA community understand the ethical framework of the HCA.  It provides tools that researchers can adapt to their own regulations, laws, local context and requirements (for example, consent, data sharing, etc.).

More information

Standards

The Standards and Technology Working Group (STWG) have two goals:

  • bring together groups and centres to compare and disseminate existing methods; and
  • ensure that new techniques are developed and adopted through a combination of academic efforts and the activities of technology companies that are eager to help the HCA and to learn from its collective expertise and experiences.

Videos and Social media

Email Addresses

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