Training offer
Bilille and the training departments of Inserm, CNRS and the University of Lille offer you every year an introductory training course in the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data.
- Module 1: DNA analyses
- Module 2: RNA-seq analyses
These modules can be followed independently.
How to register
Registration with the training departments:
Université de Lille → GEFORP portal
Inserm → SIRENE portal
CNRS → ARIANE portal
Contact
Isabelle Guigon
Next session (2026):
Module DNA analyses: March 9 (PM) & 10 2026 (1.5 days) - Trainers: H.Touzet, S.Caboche, I.Guigon - Further information
Module RNA-seq analyses: April 27-29 2026 (3 days) - Trainers: M.J.Kassar, C.Marchet, E.Chatelain, B.Marsac - Further information
Deadline to register: January, 30 2026
In partnership with the doctoral college, Bilille offers a bioinformatics discovery course for PhD students. This cycle consists of three modules:
- Databases, BLAST, gene annotation
- Sequence alignments
- Phylogeny
How to register: contact your doctoral college
Bilille is participating in the practical sessions of a course given by the Ecole Doctorale Biologie Santé de Lille doctoral school on the introduction to the statistical analysis of -omics data. Pre-registration for the training course (course and practical) is reserved primarily for doctoral students from the Ecole Doctorale Biologie Santé de Lille doctoral school and will be open at a later stage to other doctoral schools, subject to availability.
Conducted in French. Program.
How to register: Registrations must be made via ADUM from now on for the Ecole Doctorale Biologie Santé de Lille doctoral school.
Contact:
Registration contact: Secretariat of the Ecole Doctorale Biologie Santé de Lille doctoral school (mail)
Contact for other than registration: Guillemette Marot (mail)
Course materials:
Next session:
2025/2026
Bilille offers training courses in partnership with CNRS Formation Entreprises for researchers, lecturers, engineers and technicians in biology and health domain.
No IT pre-requisites are required. These courses are open nationally and will be held at the University of Lille.
Bilille organises occasional trainings to use specific scientific tools such as Galaxy or Cytoscape.
Contact us if you want to learn how to use a scientific tool/software.
Galaxy is a web platform dedicated to the analysis of biological data. Its graphical user interface makes it easy to perform and reproduce analyses intuitively.
Galaxy can also be used to automate data processing using workflows and to store analysis histories.
For more information: please visit www.galaxyproject.org
Bilille regularly organises one-day introductory course to Galaxy and its tools for biologists wishing to discover bioinformatics data processing via a user-friendly interface.
Galaxy is also used during the "Analysis of high-throughput sequencing data" training cycle.
How to register
Registration with the training departments:
Université de Lille → GEFORP portal
Inserm → SIRENE portal
CNRS → ARIANE portal
Other → Please complete and return the registration form
Contact: Isabelle Guigon (mail)
Next session (2026)
Coming soon
Cytoscape is an open source bioinformatics software platform for visualizing molecular interaction networks and integrating several sources of data such as gene expression profiles.
For more information: please visit https://cytoscape.org/
Bilille offers training courses in the following programming languages.
Bilille offers a training session on basics with R language.
This training session will introduce R language and its interface Rstudio, followed by a presentation of methods for manipulation and visualisation of data.
The training will be conducted in French (if it is necessary to conduct it in English, please contact us in advance).
The participants will need to bring their own machine with a wi-fi access to eduroam, and R and Rstudio previously installed. An installation tutorial will be sent to the participants before the training session. Basic computer skills for everyday use are required.
How to register
Registration with the training departments:
Université de Lille → GEFORP portal
Inserm → SIRENE portal
CNRS → ARIANE portal
Other → Please complete and return the registration form
Please provide a detailed profile during registration (job title, objectives, types of data to be analyzed, ...) as this information may be used in candidate selection.
Contact: Estelle Chatelain (mail)
Next session
Date : 12th and 13th March 2026, from 9 am to 5 pm
Location : Campus santé, Lille - pôle recherche
The inscriptions will be closed on January 30th.
You can find a detailed description here.
Bilille offers a training session on basics with Python language.
This training session will introduce the Python language.
The training will be conducted in French (if it is necessary to conduct it in English, please contact us in advance).
The participants will need to bring their own machine with a wi-fi access to eduroam. Basic computer skills for everyday use are required.
How to register
Registration with the training departments:
Université de Lille → GEFORP portal
Inserm → SIRENE portal
CNRS → ARIANE portal
Other → Please complete and return the registration form
Please provide a detailed profile during registration (job title, objectives, types of analyses to be done, ...) as this information may be used in candidate selection.
Contact: Isabelle GUIGON (mail)
Next session
Date : from March 30th to April 1, 2026 (3 days), from 9 am to 5 pm
Location : Campus Cité Scientifique - ESPRIT building
The inscriptions will be closed on February 13th.
You can find a detailed description here.
The Bilille platform aims to offer training courses that are as close as possible to the needs of the biology and health research community.
At the end of 2024, a survey was carried out to identify these needs (see the summary of responses).
We will soon be launching new training courses.
For more training courses, please consult the IFB website and the referenced training courses.