The Bioinformatics Roadshow - Porto

Course Summary

EBI Roadshow Host: CIBIO, Research Centre for Biodiversity and Genetic Resources
Date: 23 - 25 February 2011
Venue: CIBIO, Campus Agrário de Vairão, 4485-661 Vairão, Portugal
Host Organiser: Rita Campos and Rui Faria
EBI Support: Vicky Schneider and Xose Fernandez (Programme)
Alison Barker (Logistics)
Registration Deadline: 23 January 2011 (bursary applications 23 December 2010)

Course Overview | Programme | Registration | Trainers

Course Overview

What will I learn?

To learn how to navigate the EBI website and the different ways to access and retrieve data.
To understand the differences between the major nucleotide sequence databases.
To understand the differences between the major protein sequence databases.
To browse the UniProt database in detail, learning about its structure and the type of data it contains.
To understand the specialised sequence search tools within the InterPro database and how they are used to predict protein classification and function.
To understand the principles of nucleotide and protein sequence searching, multiple alignments, and an introduction to phylogenetics.
To get an introduction to genome annotation.
To gain practical experience in data mining approaches based on BioMart.

Programme

The provisional roadshow programme is as follows:

Times	Topic	Trainer
Wednesday 23 February 2011
09.30 - 10.30	The EBI: resources and tools talk tutorial	Duncan Legge
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee/Tea break
11.00 - 12.30	Nucleotide sequence data talk(PPT PPX) tutorial	Duncan Legge
12.30 - 13.15	Lunch
13.15 - 15.00	Protein sequence data talk tutorial	Duncan Legge
15.00 - 15.30	Coffee/Tea break
15.30 - 17.00	Protein motifs, domains and families talk tutorial tutorial answers	Duncan Legge
Thursday 24 February 2011
09.30 - 10.30	Sequence searching	Nicolas Salamin
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee/Tea break
11.00 - 12.30	Alignments	Nicolas Salamin
12.30 - 13.15	Lunch
13.15 - 15.00	Introduction to phylogenetics and trees interpretations	Nicolas Salamin
15.00 - 15.30	Coffee/Tea break
15.30 - 17.00	Making trees	Nicolas Salamin
Friday 25 February 2011
09.00 - 10.30	Ensembl Introduction & Worked example	Jana Vandrovcova
10.30 - 11.00	Coffee/Tea break
11.00 - 12.30	BioMart	Jana Vandrovcova
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch
13.30 - 15.30	Genebuild & Comparative Genomics	Jana Vandrovcova
15.30 - 16.00	Coffee/Tea break
16.00 - 17.30	Variation	Jana Vandrovcova

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Registration

Please complete the registration, standard registration closes 23 January 2011. Items marked * are mandatory. Incomplete registrations will not be processed. There is a small charge of £7 per day to cover the cost of lunch and refreshments.

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This course is now full:

A limited number of travel fellowships are available for SLING roadshows. Fellowships are only applicable to persons travelling from outside the host institute and attending for the full duration of the course. Fellowships cover a maximum EUR500 per person towards the cost of travel, accommodation and subsistence. If you wish to be considered for a fellowship please indicate this on your registration and complete a bursary application form.

Bursary application form click here for pdf version

Only complete bursary applications received before the bursary deadline of 23 December 2010 will be considered. Selection will take place within 3 weeks of this date and successful applicants will be notified before close of final registration on 14 January 2011.

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Trainers

Duncan Legge - EBI
Nicolas Salamin - SIB
Jana Vandrovcova - EBI

Contact

For further information, to register interest, or enquire about hosting a roadshow - please contact the EMBL-EBI Events Team, T: +44 (0)1223 494444.

The Bioinformatics Roadshow is funded by the European Commission under SLING, grant agreement number 226073 (Integrating Activity) within Research Infrastructures of the FP7 Capacities Specific Programme.

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