Training

Support for Industry is part of the mission of the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute. To this end we have established an annual series of information workshops based in differing locations in Europe. These workshops are designed to allow SMEs to hear about data resources, tools and services that are provided freely by EMBL-EBI and our collaborators, this year with a special focus on the European Patent Office (EPO).
The workshop will provide the opportunity to introduce the tools and data resources that are available and the opportunities for SMEs to use and integrate these resources in order to derive business benefit from the existing and developing infrastructure.
The topics of the workshop have been specifically selected on the basis of previous interactions with SMEs and include chemogenomics, cheminformatics, proteomics, text mining, literature services and analysis, web services, which is fast developing as the accepted technology in scientific computing, and patent services providing by EMBL-EBI and the European Patent Office.
This year in addition to the presentations, discussion and networking opportunities, there will also be an opportunity for some hands-on tutorials at the offices of the EPO. In order to encourage participation, the registration costs for the workshop (50 Pounds per participant) have been highly subsidised through the generous contributions of the hosting organisations (BioM and the EPO) and financial contributions from a number of EU projects (ENFIN, SLING, CALBC and ELIXIR) that are coordinated by EMBL-EBI and are targeted to provide bioinformatics tools and data resources for European research.