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The Bioinformatics Training and Education Program (BTEP)

What is BTEP?

BTEP is an Office of Science and Technology Resources (OSTR) program dedicated to

increasing the awareness and understanding of bioinformatics techniques and processes among CCR scientists, with the goal of empowering CCR scientists to perform a basic, informed set of analyses on their own behalf. --- BTEP

BTEP organizes talks on bioinformatic related topics and hosts trainings on commercial and non-commercial bioinformatics tools. In addition, the BTEP website is an excellent resource for finding NIH wide bioinformatics events (See the NIH Bioinformatics Training Calendar) and learning more regarding bioinformatics software available to NCI researchers (See the BTEP Software pages).

NIH BTEP Calendar

NIH Bioinformatics Training Calendar contains descriptions and links to bioinformatics training events and talks on related topics from all over the NIH campus, not just BTEP sponsored events.

Events and Resources Posts

Events and Resources Posts contain announcements regarding online learning resource licenses (Coursera, Dataquest) and available NGS analyses software packages (Partek Flow, Qlucore, Qiagen, etc.).

Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series

Each year, BTEP hosts a Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series with notable guest speakers from around the world involved in groundbreaking cancer -omics research or research of interest to the CCR community.

  • Speakers from 2022 included: Rahul Satija, Melissa Haendel, Sarah Teichmann, Nicholas Navin, Christophter Mason, and Christina Curtis.

  • Upcoming speakers for 2023 include Trey Ideker, Brandi Davis-Dusenberry, Jennifer Trowbridge, Christina Curtis, and Atul Butte.

FAQ Forums

BTEP maintains several Question and Answer Forums of interest to the NCI/CCR community, where researchers can ask questions on specific bioinformatic topics. There are currently FAQ forums for the following topics:

Upcoming Classes

Upcoming classes hosted by BTEP can be found at https://bioinformatics.ccr.cancer.gov/btep/classes/#BTEP.