Training

The EBI is delighted to be hosting the 8th BioSapiens European School in Bioinformatics (ESB). This is held twice a year in a different country every time. See the BioSapiens webpage for a list of all schools held to date.

The BioSapiens ESB is an intensive five-day course that combines lectures and hands-on tutorials to help the participants actively learn and resolve biologically relevant problems. The 8th ESB focuses on using Europe’s core biological data resources and associated tools to analyse biological data.

Course requirements

The ESB is aimed at participants with little or no experience in computational biology. You should have a minimum of a degree in a biological discipline. As places are (max 40), participants will be selected. You will be asked to explain on the registration form what you hope to get out of the school, and this explanation will be used at the basis of the selection process.

The Registration fee is £200. This has been subsidised and includes: five nights’ accommodation in a shared room on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, breakfast, lunches and dinners (including dinner at St John’s College, Cambridge, on the evening of Thursday 14th May). Please be aware that you are expected to arrive for dinner on Sunday 11th May and to depart immediately after the programme has finished on Friday 16th May. No dinner or accommodation will be provided on Friday evening.