Data visualisation for biology Course 2025

Data visualisation for biology Course 2025 is organized by European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL - EBI) and will be held from Jun 24 - 26, 2025 at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom.

Description:
This course will give insights into, and practical experience in, data visualisation for exploring complex and multi-dimensional biological data.

Biological and life sciences data often consists of multiple dimensions: a combination of numerical values, ordered data, categories, and time-series. To make sense of this data, simple plots like scatterplots, barcharts, and boxplots are often not enough. Still, visualisation is critical in gaining deep insight into the data. This is why many custom visualisations originated in the biological field.

In this course, we will dive into the topic of visualisation of complex biological data and how it can be used to gain insight into and get a "feel" for a dataset, so that targeted analyses can be defined. It will be delivered through a mixture of lectures and workshop sessions, and will provide hands-on experience in developing visualisations. The course will focus on working with omics (e.g. genomics, transcriptomics) data rather than e.g. imaging data.

What will I learn?
Learning outcomes:
After the course you should be able to: 

• Apply theories of perception and cognition
• Identify frameworks to comprehend data visualisation
• Explain the concepts of visual design process
• Implement visualisations with Svelte

Course content:
During this course you will learn about: 

• Image perception
• How to visualise data in the best possible way
• User experience for data visualisation
• How to use visualisation of complex biological data  to get insight into a dataset