Training

Is it right for me?

This Summer School is aimed at early-stage researchers with little or no experience in computational biology. This course will provide PhD students, postdocs and clinician-scientists with practical training in bioinformatics in the context of the latest biomedical and biological research. This course also aims to serve as a forum for the interchange of ideas and expertise between database providers and their users. This Summer School will involve hands-on training in using the data resources, therefore we are limiting the number of participants to 35.

Trainers include:

What will I learn?

• A broad introduction to bioinformatics data resources (including, but not limited to, EBI core resources) through lecture- and practical-based sessions.
• To understand when, why and how to use public data resources for molecular biology.
• Practical experience of using the databases, using a range of widely applicable case studies.

What will it cover?

• An Introduction to Bioinformatics
  • Concepts, historical milestones and the central place of bioinformatics in modern biology
  • Bioinformatics Databases, Tools and Institutions
• Sequence Similarity and Homology
  • Concepts and tools
  • Sequence analysis
  • Phylogenetics
• Genomes and Expression data
  • Genomics resources and genome browsing
  • Expression datasets: repositories
  • Exploring Expression data and Comparing Expression profiles
• Proteomes and Structures
  • Searching for proteins and proteomes
  • Functional characterization of proteins
  • Protein structure
• Systems Biology: Interactions & pathways
  • Protein-Protein Interactions
  • Visualising networks
  • Pathways through Reactome