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8th BioSapiens School @ the EBI- Hinxton12-16 May 2008
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. With thanks and support from:
OrganisersThis European School is hosted by the EBI: Course Main Organizers: Course Session co-organizers: Day 1: Das for Biologists: Day 2: Sequence Searching: Day 3: Genomes and Proteomes Day 4: Structures and Proteomics Day 5: Systems Biology Selection committee:Anna Tramontano, University of Rome "La Sapienza" Cath Brooksbank, EMBL-EBI, UK Vicky Schneider, EMBL-EBI, UK Phil Jones, EMBL-EBI, UK Andreas Prlic, Sanger Intitute Preliminary ProgrammeTraining starts at 09:30 and lasts until approximately 17:30 each day. See full program. On Thursday 15th May there is a social dinner (sponsored by ENFIN) at 19:30 in the Wordsworth Room at St John’s College, Cambridge.
Trainers Biographies Ruth Akhtar is a scientific database curator working on the EMBL-Bank database. She has a background in molecular biology and genetics research and joined the EBI in 2006. Ruth works in the team resposible for the curation of sequence data held in the EMBL nucleotide sequence database, part of the international collaboration with GenBank and DDBJ, and is responsible for training new database curators.  David Croft is a bioinformatician and has been giving talks and training for the Reactome project since 2005. He is also involved in maintaining and updating the Reactome website. Prior to joining the EBI, he spent seven years in industry designing bioinformatics and cheminformatics applications.
 Eugene Kulesha
was trained in computer science and has many years of experience in web development. For the past three years he has worked in Ensembl web team, where his prime responsibility was development of the Ensembl website as a DAS client and DAS server. At present he is the Ensembl Genomes web team leader. Phil Jones is the technical lead software engineer for the PRIDE project. He has a background in both biological sciences and software engineering, and holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education. He has held positions in software engineering and in science education. He has given courses and talks on various software development projects in numerous locations worldwide.
RegistrationRegistration Closed. LocationThe conference will take place at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre located on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, which houses the European Bioinformatics Institute, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Accommodation-Travel
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Paul Kersey was trained in molecular biology and since 2000 has been working on the management of data from complete genomes, in resources including EMBL-Bank, UniProtKB and the Internationa Protein Index. He currently leads a team overseeing the development of Integr8 and Genome Reviews.
Samuel Kerrien is a senior software engineer working in the Proteomics Services of the European Bioinformatics Institute. He is primarily working on IntAct, a framework for molecular interactions. Since 2002, he has also been involved with the Proteomics Standard Initiative in the development of the Molecular Interaction standard (PSI-MI). More recently, he took part in the creation and development of the International Molecular Exchange Consortium (IMEx).
Jennifer McDowall is a senior curator working on the InterPro database at the European Bioinformatics Institute. She is involved in the integration and quality control of protein signatures that predict the domain organisation and function of proteins. Prior to working at the EBI, she was part of the team that sequenced the human genome, and worked in the faculty of Open University (Canada) to develop courses in biology and genetics.
Sandra Orchard is a Senior Scientific Database Curator working across the UniProt, InterPro and Proteomics Services teams at the EBI. She is responsible for the curation standards within the IntAct molecular interaction database as well as contributing to the annotation of the UniProtKB, InterPro and GOA databases, and applies her experience to provide hands-on training in several resources including UniProtKB, IPI, InterPro and IntAct.
Andreas Prlic is Post Doc in the Tim Hubbard research group at the Sanger Institute, where is he is working on data integration from genome to protein sequence and 3D structure. He is one of the key developers of the Distributed Annotation System. He is maintainer of the DAS registration server and developer of the SPICE browser. He is also one of the project leaders of BioJava. 
Florian Reisinger was trained as bioinformatician and is currently working as software developer in
the proteomics services team of the European Bioinformatics Institute. He is primarily working for
ENFIN, an EU funded project to provide a Europe-wide integration of computational approaches in
systems biology and is the main developer of its core infrastructure EnCore, which aims at providing
standardised, set based access to web service resources in the bioinformatics world.
James Watson is a researcher in the Thornton group. His interests lie in protein structure and hydrogen bonding motifs but the main focus of his research is the prediction of protein function from three-dimensional structure. His key role involves working as part of the Midwest Center for Structural Genomics to analyse all new protein structures solved using their high-throughput pipeline. He has also been involved in the development and testing of the ProFunc server (a fully automated protein function prediction server) and is currently developing one aspect of it as a standalone service called Tempura.