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November 2018

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Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures
University of Milano-Bicocca - Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo, 20126,  Milan,  MI, Italy
13th Nov - 26th Jun

This Masters development programme is aimed at current Research Infrastructures managers and leaders who wish to develop the competencies required to meet the needs of Research Infrastructures in the planning, construction and operation phases.

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Project management

May 2019

29
VEPTC 2019 Practical Session: The Ensembl Genome Browser
Mercure Moscow Paveletskaya Hotel - Bakhrushin St, 11, Moskva, Moskva,  115054, Russia
29th - 31st May

Work with the Ensembl Outreach team to get to grips with the Ensembl browser, accessing variation data, and annotating variants with the Variant Effect Predictor (VEP).

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Genomics
Bioinformatics
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Protein Function Prediction with Machine Learning and Interactive Analytics
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
29th - 30th May

This workshop explores how to conduct functional annotation of proteins through machine learning (ML) approaches.

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Machine learning
Protein domains and folds
Function analysis
Protein families
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Enzyme Portal
29th May

Enzyme Portal is a freely available resource to find and explore enzyme-related information. This webinar will provide a practical overview of the type of information that the Enzyme Portal provides for enzymes. We will show, using various examples, how to search the Portal for specific enzymes according to the reactions they catalyse, the pathways or the diseases they are involved in.

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Webinar
Enzymes

June 2019

4
Bioinformatics for Principal Investigators
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
4th - 6th Jun

The aim of this course is to provide principal investigators with an introduction to the challenges of working with biological data as a research leader. This course will not provide a platform for teaching hands-on bioinformatics analysis.

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Bioinformatics
Data search, query and retrieval
Computational biology
Data management
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Managing a Bioinformatics Core Facility
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
4th - 6th Jun

Bioinformatics core facilities play an essential role in enabling research in the molecular life sciences. This is constantly evolving as new research tools emerge, as experiments become increasingly data intensive, and as their clients – experimental researchers – become more exposed to the power of data-driven biology.

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Course
Bioinformatics
4
Genomics and clinical data at your fingertips with open-source software: tranSMART & cBioPortal
4th Jun

The propelling importance of genomics data in present-day health research is not yet supported with user-friendly software solutions that expose these data in a manner easily appreciated by clinical researchers. Clearly, there is a need for tools that integrate genomics and other molecular biology results with the phenotypic and clinical outcome data. Two widely used open-source solutions specifically, tranSMART and cBioPortal, will be demonstrated. This webinar is part of the CORBEL webinar series

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Webinar
Genomics
Health research
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The CINECA project - Addressing bottlenecks in cohort data analysis
6th Jun

This webinar introduces the CINECA (Common Infrastructure for National Cohorts in Europe, Canada, and Africa) project, which aims to develop a federated cloud enabled infrastructure to make population scale genomic and biomolecular data accessible across international borders, to accelerate research, and improve the health of individuals across continents. This webinar is part of the CINECA webinar series.

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Webinar
Genomics
Data integration
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Metagenomics Bioinformatics 2019
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
10th - 13th Jun

This course will cover the use of publicly available resources to manage, share, analyse and interpret metagenomics data, including marker gene, whole gene shotgun (WGS) and assembly-based approaches.

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Metagenomics
Sequence analysis
Function analysis
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Ensembl Browser and the 1000 Genomes Project Workshop, Belgrade, 11-12 June 2019
University of Belgrade, Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering - Vojvode Stepe 444a, 11010,  Belgrade, Serbia
11th - 12th Jun

Work with the Ensembl Outreach team to get to grips with the Ensembl browser, accessing gene, variation, comparative genomics and regulation data, and mine these data with BioMart. Learn how high-throughput sequencing was applied by the 1000 Genomes Project and how this work continues with the International Genome Sample Resource (IGSR).

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Genomics
Bioinformatics
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Ensembl Browser Course, EBI, 11th June 2019
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
11th Jun

Work with the Ensembl Outreach team to get to grips with the Ensembl browser, accessing gene, variation, comparative genomics and regulation data, and mine these data with BioMart.

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Course
Genomics
Bioinformatics
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Genomic features that regulate gene expression, with Ensembl
12th Jun

Join Ensembl to investigate a genomic region which controls gene expression, determine its activity in different cell types and view the epigenomic markers at that locus, plus see how to access these data in bulk.

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Webinar
Gene expression
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Ensembl REST API Workshop, Belgrade, 14 June 2019
University of Belgrade, Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering - Vojvode Stepe 444a, 11010,  Belgrade, Serbia
14th Jun

Work with Ensembl to master the Ensembl REST APIs and flexibly access genome-wide data, such as genes, variants, regulatory features, homologues and alignments.

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Course
Genomics
Bioinformatics
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Cancer Genomics
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
17th - 20th Jun

This course will focus on the analysis of data from genomic studies of Cancer. Lectures will give an insight into the bioinformatic concepts required to analyze such data, whilst practical sessions will enable the participants to apply statistical methods to the analysis of cancer genomics data under the guidance of the lecturers and teaching assistants.

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Bioinformatics
Genomics
Oncology
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Summer School in Bioinformatics
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
24th - 28th Jun

This course provides an introduction to the use of bioinformatics in biological research, giving participants guidance for using bioinformatics in their work whilst also providing hands-on training in tools and resources appropriate to their research.

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Bioinformatics
Data search, query and retrieval
Critical thinking
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Ensembl Browser Workshop: First Nigerian Bioinformatics Conference (FNBC), 24th June 2019
Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) - Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, 6 Edmund Crescent, Lagos, Nigeria
24th Jun

Work with the Ensembl Outreach team to get to grips with the Ensembl browser, accessing gene, variation, comparative genomics and regulation data, and mine these data with BioMart.

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Course
Bioinformatics
Genomics
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CABANA Workshop: Genomic Analysis of Crop Biodiversity using R
LANGEBIO, Cinvestav - LANGEBIO, Cinvestav, Libramiento Norte Carretera Leon Km 9.6, Irapuato,  GUA,  36821, Mexico
25th - 28th Jun

This course will provide training on using R in genomics applications for crop biodiversity.

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Biodiversity
Genomics
Phylogenetics
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Ensembl Browser Workshop, Anchor University, Lagos, 27th June 2019
Anchor University - Ayobo Road, Ipaja, Lagos, Nigeria
27th Jun

Work with the Ensembl Outreach team to get to grips with the Ensembl browser, accessing gene, variation, comparative genomics and regulation data, and mine these data with BioMart.

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Course
Genomics
Bioinformatics
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Ensembl Train the Trainer Workshop, Anchor University, Lagos, 28th June 2019
Anchor University - Ayobo Road, Ipaja, Lagos, Nigeria
28th Jun

Work with the Ensembl outreach team to develop teaching skills and practice delivering Ensembl Browser workshops.

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Genomics
Bioinformatics
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BioExcel Summer School on Biomolecular Simulations 2019
30th Jun - 5th Jul

The summer school will include lectures and hands-on sessions on the following topics: Molecular Dynamics simulations Biomolecular Docking QM/MM Free energy calculations Advanced sampling methods (metadynamics) During the hands-on computer practicals you will work on a use case integrating the various topics above making use, among others, of the BioExcel flagship software (GROMACS, HADDOCK, PMX, CP2K).

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Molecular dynamics
Molecular docking
Molecular modelling

July 2019

3
Managing single cell transcriptomics data
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
3rd - 5th Jul

This course will provide researchers generating and working with single-cell RNA sequencing or image-based transcriptomics data with the tools and knowledge for generating high-quality metadata alongside their data and analyses.

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Data management
Nucleic acid sequence analysis
Single Cell
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Systems Biology: From large datasets to biological insight
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
8th - 12th Jul

Run jointly with the Wellcome Trust, this course will provide participants with an introduction to network analysis and an in-depth training in the main modelling approaches used in systems biology.

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Systems biology
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International Workshop on NGS data analysis and Ensembl resources, New Delhi, 9-12 July 2019
National Institute of Plant Genome Research - Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, P.O. Box No. 10531, New Delhi,  Delhi,  110067, India
9th - 12th Jul

This workshop is a collaborative effort between National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) and the Ensembl team at EMBL-EBI (www.ensembl.org).

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Bioinformatics
Genomics
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Bioinformatics for Immunologists
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
15th - 19th Jul

This course provides an introduction to immunology bioinformatics and offer opportunities to explore key methods, tools and resources that can be applied to research.

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Immunology
RNA-Seq
Immunoproteins, genes and antigens
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Proteomics Bioinformatics
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
21st - 26th Jul

This course provides hands-on training in the basics of mass spectrometry and proteomics bioinformatics.

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Proteomics
Molecular interactions, pathways and networks
Mass spectrometry
NMR spectroscopy

August 2019

6
CABANA Workshop: Genotyping by Sequencing Applied to Plant Breeding
University of Costa Rica (UCR) - Ciudad universitaria Rodrigo Facio Brenes, San Pedro, San Jose, Costa Rica
6th - 9th Aug

This workshop will provide training around the experimental design and multiple applications of Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS) in plants. In addition, detailed computational analysis of GBS data and resources will be explored.

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Genotype and phenotype
Genomics

September 2019

10
Finding Evidence in Research Publications
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
10th - 11th Sep

This two-day workshop introduces tools and approaches used to discover biologically relevant data in the research literature.

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cross class
Litera
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Analysing non-coding RNA with RNAcentral and Rfam
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
11th - 12th Sep

This workshop, organised in conjunction with the RNA Informatics conference, provides an overview of RNAcentral and Rfam, two databases for non-coding RNA analysis.

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non-coding RNA
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Structural Bioinformatics
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
16th - 20th Sep

This course explores bioinformatics data resources and tools for the interpretation and exploitation of bio-macromolecular structures.

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Structural biology
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Next Generation Sequencing Bioinformatics
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
23rd - 26th Sep

This course will provide an introduction to the technology, analysis workflows, tools and resources for next generation sequencing data analysis.

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Genomics
Genetic variation
Sequence analysis

October 2019

8
Exploring Biological Sequences
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
8th - 10th Oct

This course will introduce you to approaches used for finding, analysing and using biological sequences.

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Sequence alignment
Sequence analysis
Data search, query and retrieval

November 2019

11
Bioinformatics & Functional Genomics in Zebrafish
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
11th - 14th Nov

This course has been designed specifically for researchers working within the Zebrafish community, providing an introduction and practical knowledge of tools and resources for working with functional genomics data.

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Gene expression
Bioinformatics
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Bioinformatics for Plant Biology
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
18th - 21st Nov

This course will introduce plant biologists to methods and approaches for analysing the genomic data. Over the duration of the course, participants will learn how to study comparative genomics using Ensembl, analyse variation data (including the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor and the European Variation Archive), and concepts of genome wide association studies (GWAS). The content will also explain how to make use of existing public data, retrieve, submit and share your discoveries with the community.

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Plants
bioinformatics tools
Data analysis
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Single Cell RNA-seq Analysis: From Questions to Clusters
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
27th - 29th Nov

This course utilises Galaxy pipelines, an online open-access resource that allows even the most computer-phobic bench scientists to analyse their biological data. Participants will be guided through the droplet-based scRNA-seq analysis pipelines from raw reads to cell cluster comparisons, with a particular emphasis on data extracted from the single cell expression atlas, Array Express, and 10x Cell Ranger outputs. Finally, participants will learn about data submission, resources, and standards within the single cell field. This course complements our "Managing single cell transcriptomics data" course, although it is not a pre-requisite.

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Single Cell
RNA-Seq
Data analysis

Online courses

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10th Anniversary Treasure Hunt

Author(s): David Armstrong, Melissa Burke, Laura Huerta, Maria Levchenko, Alex Mitchell, Sarah Morgan, Grace Mugumbate, Prudence Mutowo, Sandra Orchard, Emily Perry, Sangya Pundir, Lorna Richardson, Amy Tang

In 2017 the EMBL-EBI Training Programme is celebrating 10 amazing years of providing onsite, offsite and online training in bioinformatics. To help celebrate this anniversary, we designed a treasure hunt to give you a taster of the free resources...

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ArrayExpress: Discover functional genomics data quickly and easily

Author(s): Anja Füllgrabe

ArrayExpress is a database of functional genomics data. This course will give you an overview of how these data are stored in ArrayExpress and will teach you how to effectively search and retrieve data from the ArrayExpress website . Course...

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ArrayExpress: Quick tour

Author(s): Melissa Burke

This quick tour provides an overview of EMBL-EBI’s functional genomics database ArrayExpress. This course was updated in December 2015. An undergraduate-level understanding of biology is an advantage. You may wish to have a look at our Functional...

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ArrayExpress: why and how to submit your data

Author(s): Melissa Burke

Join Melissa Burke, a former curator with ArrayExpress, for a webinar on why and how to submit your functional genomics data to ArrayExpress using Annotare, our online submissions tool. ArrayExpress is a database of functional genomics experiments...

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Biocuration: An introduction

Author(s): Claire ODonovan

Claire O'Donovan, leader of the Protein Function Content team at EMBL-EBI, gives an introduction into biocuration and talks about what it is like to work as a biocurator and the skill sets you need. This webinar was recorded on 2 March 2016 and is...

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Bioinformatics for the terrified

Author(s): Cath Brooksbank

This course will give you a broad overview of how bioinformatics can enable bench-based research. It is aimed at experimental researchers in the molecular life sciences who have little or no previous experience of using bioinformatics databases or...

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Biomacromolecular structures: An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources

Author(s): Joanna Argasinska

Introduction to structural biology and related resources at EMBL-EBI.

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Biomedical data: Ethical, legal and social implications

Author(s): Sarah Morgan

This course explores the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of biomedical data sharing. The material will introduce the reasons why we want to share data, the benefits it can bring, and the challenges of doing so. It will present ideas...

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BioModels: Quick tour

Author(s): Vijayalakshmi Chelliah

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to EMBL-EBI’s resource of mathematical models of biological/biomedical systems: BioModels .

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BioSamples Database RDF: webinar

Author(s): Marco Brandizi

This webinar is presented by Marco Brandizi and covers the BioSamples database resource description framework (RDF). This video is best viewed using Google Chrome and in full screen mode.

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BioSamples: Quick tour

Author(s): Luca Cherubin

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the EBI's BioSamples data resource. Undergraduate-level understanding of biology would be an advantage.

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Cellular Microscopy Phenotype Ontology (CMPO): Quick tour

Author(s): Gabry Rustici

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the Cellular Microscopy Phenotype Ontology (CMPO). It covers the scientific principles that led to the creation of this ontology and how it can be used.

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ChEBI: Quick tour

Author(s): Gareth Owen

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to ChEBI, the EBI's Chemical Entities of Biological Interest database, which focuses on 'small' chemical compounds. For a more detailed walthrough of ChEBI, have a look at our ChEBI: the online...

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ChEBI: The online chemical dictionary for small molecules

Author(s): Namrata Kale

Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) is a user-friendly online chemical dictionary that focuses on the nomenclature, structure, and biological properties of 'small' molecules that may be encountered by anyone working in (or merely with...

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ChEMBL walkthrough: webinar

Author(s): Prudence Mutowo

Prudence Mutowo presents this webinar on ChEMBL - a manually curated chemical database of bioactive molecules with drug-like properties. This webinar took place on 6th February 2017 and is an update to a webinar recorded by Louisa Bellis in 2015. It...

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ChEMBL: Exploring bioactive drug-like molecules

Author(s): Louisa Bellis

This course will show you the content and search facilities for the ChEMBL database . ChEMBL is a database of bioactive drug-like molecules, and contains 2D structures, calculated properties and associated bioactivities. Some basic understanding of...

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ChEMBL: Quick tour

Author(s): Louisa Bellis

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to ChEMBL, the EBI's chemogenomics resource. For a more detailed walthrough of ChEMBL, have a look at our ChEMBL: Exploring bioactive drug-like molecules tutorial.

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Complex Portal: Quick tour

Author(s): Birgit Meldal

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to EMBL-EBI's Complex Portal: a manually curated, encyclopedic resource of macromolecular complexes from a number of key model organisms.

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Complex Portal: webinar

Author(s): Birgit Meldal

Birgit Meldal gives an introduction to the Complex Portal . The Complex Portal provides manually curated summaries about macromolecular complexes, including lists of participants, function and property information as well as cross-references. This...

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Computational chemistry in drug discovery

Darren Green, Director of Computational Chemistry at GSK, presents a talk on using computational chemistry approaches for drug discovery. The talk explains how informatics can aid many steps in the discovery and development process, to elucidate...

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DGVa: Quick tour

Author(s): Lisa Skipper

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the DGVa, the EBI's Database of Genomic Variants archive.

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diXa data warehouse: Exploring data from toxicogenomics studies

Author(s): Vera Matser

The diXa data warehouse is a curated collection of toxicogenomics experiments, accessible through the diXa website . This course will show you how to use the diXa warehouse and what data is available.

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Drug repurposing

Author(s): John Overington

John Overington, Director of Bioinformatics at Stratified Medical, and former group leader at EMBL-EBI, presents a talk on the repurposing of drugs for novel therapeutic applications. The talk explores how computational approaches can be used to...

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Druggability and the druggable genome

Author(s): Anna Gaulton

Anna Gaulton presents this webinar on the druggable genome and the concept of druggability. She discusses why druggability is so important in drug discovery and what methods and databases you can used to determine the druggability of your targets...

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EBI Metagenomics portal: Quick tour

Author(s): Hubert Denise

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to EBI Metagenomics - a free resource for archiving, analysing, visualising, discovering and comparing metagenomic and metatranscriptomic datasets. If you want to submit your metagenomics data to EBI...

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EBI Metagenomics portal: Submitting metagenomics data to the European Nucleotide Archive

Author(s): Hubert Denise

This tutorial provides you with a step-by-step guide for submitting metagenomics data to the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) in order for it to be analysed by the EBI Metagenomics resource.

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EBI Metagenomics: analysing and exploring metagenomics data

Author(s): Alex Mitchell

EBI metagenomics is a freely available hub for the analysis and exploration of metagenomic, metatranscriptomic, amplicon and assembly datasets. The resource provides rich functional and taxonomic analyses of user-submitted sequences, as well as...

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EBI: Next Generation Sequencing Practical Course

Author(s): Emily Perry

Here you will find a collection of video lectures from the 'Hands on training in Next-Generation Sequencing' course that took place at EMBL-EBI on 12-14 March 2012, available for you to watch in your own time. The workshop provides an introduction...

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EGA: Quick tour

Author(s): Gary Saunders

This Quick tour provides a brief introduction to the European Genome-phenome archive (EGA).

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EMBL-EBI resources: An introduction

Author(s): Tom Hancocks, Jennifer Cham

The EMBL-EBI is the home of the world's most comprehensive range of freely available molecular databases and resources. Our resources help researchers share and analyse data and perform complex queries in many different ways. Join Tom Hancocks in...

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EMBL-EBI, programmatically: take a REST from manual searches

Author(s): David Armstrong, Melissa Burke, Andrew Cowley, Anna Foix, Joon Lee, Maria Levchenko, Matthew Laird, Michal Nowotka, Klemens Pichler

From BLAST searches to literature services, gene annotation and information on protein structure and function, large amounts of biological data can be accessed online with the click of a button. When it comes to repeated tasks with large volumes of...

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EMBO Practical Course on Analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing Data

Author(s): Gabry Rustici

Here you will find a collection of materials including videos of lectures from the 'EMBO Practical Course on Analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing Data' that took place at EMBL-EBI on 23-29 October 2011. This course was aimed at advanced PhD...

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EMPIAR: Quick tour

Author(s): Andrii Iudin, Ardan Patwardhan

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the Electron Microscopy Pilot Image Archive (EMPIAR), a public resource for raw, 2D electron microscopy images.

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Ensembl browser webinar series

Author(s): Emily Perry, Ben Moore, Helen Sparrow, Denise Carvalho-Silva, Victoria Newman

Between the 6th April and 18th May 2017, we will be holding a series of live Ensembl webinars which come together to provide a complete browser course. This course includes an introduction to Ensembl, what kind of data Ensembl has, and how to browse...

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Ensembl Genomes (non-chordates): Quick tour

Author(s): Paul Kersey

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to Ensembl Genomes , the non-chordate genome browser.

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Ensembl tools: webinar

Author(s): Emily Perry

Taught by Emily from the Ensembl Outreach team, this webinar will show you what tools are available in Ensembl and how you can use them in your work, taking you through the processes step-by-step. We'll look at Data Slicer, Assembly Converter, File...

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Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP): webinar

Author(s): Ben Moore

Want easy analysis of your own variant calls? The Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) allows you to annotate variants with the genes and regulatory features they hit and what effect they have on them. It can also tell you if your variant is known...

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Ensembl: Browsing genomes

Author(s): Emily Perry, Giulietta M. Spudich, Ben Moore, Helen Sparrow

This course focuses on genomes on the Ensembl website at www.ensembl.org. It provides a quick beginner's guide to the overall structure of the Ensembl genome browser.

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Ensembl: Filmed API workshop

Author(s): Emily Perry

Ensembl runs API workshops worldwide, and for the first time we make one available online. Here you will find a collection of video lectures from the 'Ensembl API workshop' that took place at EMBL-EBI 22nd-24th May 2013, using Ensembl version 71...

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Ensembl: Filmed browser workshop

Author(s): Emily Perry

UPDATE: The new browser webinar series is here. This new course consisted of live webinars over 7 weeks, which were recorded and the videos posted online, along with exercises to let you practice using Ensembl. The new course has replaced this one...

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Ensembl: Genomic features that regulate genes

Author(s): Emily Perry

This webinar was held on the 6th July 2016 and takes you through the Ensembl regulatory build, which is used to predict the location of promoters, enhancers and other regulatory features in the human and mouse genomes, using experimental data from...

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Ensembl: Quick tour

Author(s): Emily Perry

This course provides a very short introduction to the Ensembl website for browsing chordate genomes. This is a quick overview to the browser, designed to give you an idea of what is possible, and will not give you a full tutorial on how to do...

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Enzyme Portal: Quick tour

Author(s): Sangya Pundir

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the Enzyme Portal - a data resource that provides access to information from several enzyme-related databases, both at EMBL-EBI and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB).

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Enzymes in UniProt

Author(s): Rossana Zaru

This webinar provides a practical walkthrough of the UniProt website for enzyme data. It highlights features that will help researchers find the information they need on their enzymes of interest, demonstrating how to get the data they’re looking...

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Europe PMC: get the most from literature searches

Author(s): Michael Parkin

With Europe PMC, a free biomedical repository and partner in PubMed Central International, you can search worldwide, life-sciences literature, including articles, books, patents, and clinical guidelines. In this webinar we will show how to use...

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Europe PMC: Quick tour

Author(s): Michael Parkin

This quick tour gives a brief introduction to Europe PMC , an open and free-access literature resource for biomedical and life sciences researchers. Course updated in June 2017.

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European Nucleotide Archive (ENA): An introduction: webinar

Author(s): Marc Rossello

In this webinar, Marc Rossello gives an introduction the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA). This webinar took place on 8 April 2015. NB: This video works best using Google Chrome and when viewed in full screen. Find out about upcoming webinars .

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European Nucleotide Archive: Quick tour

Author(s): Clara Amid

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the European Nucleotide Archive, the EBI's repository for nucleotide sequence data.

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European Nucleotide Archive: Using the primary nucleotide sequence resource

Author(s): Clara Amid

This course will show you how to search and retrieve nucleotide sequence data from the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA). The ENA provides sequence assembly details and biological annotation, and uses versioning to track sequence changes.

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European Variation Archive at EMBL-EBI: webinar

Author(s): Gary Saunders

There are a number of open-access variation datasets available for the genomics community. These are found on numerous FTP servers, various literature resources and probably one or two thousand hard-drives that are floating across the globe. We can...

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European Variation Archive: Quick tour

Author(s): Gary Saunders

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the European Variation Archive - an open-access repository for genetic variation datasets that are submitted directly from the community, or are loaded to the resource by internal staff members.

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Exploring models for human disease with UniProt

Author(s): Sangya Pundir

UniProt is the Universal Protein Resource covering human variants and their disease association, in addition to general protein function and sequence data. This webinar will illustrate how to explore models for human disease variants to support...

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Exploring protein interactions with UniProt

Author(s): Klemens Pichler

UniProt is the Universal Protein Resource covering human variants and their disease association, in addition to general protein function and sequence data. This webinar will illustrate how to explore protein interactions with the UniProt website...

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Expression Atlas: Quick tour

Author(s): Maria Keays

This extended quick tour provides a brief introduction to the Expression Atlas (“Atlas”). Expression Atlas provides information on gene expression patterns under different biological conditions. An undergraduate-level understanding of biology is an...

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Functional genomics (I): Introduction and designing experiments

Author(s): Melissa Burke, Laura Huerta

This is the first part of our functional genomics course. This course will give you an introduction to functional genomics. We will introduce you to different types of functional genomics studies and discuss best practices when designing your own...

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Functional genomics (II): Common technologies and data analysis methods

Author(s): Laura Huerta, Melissa Burke

This is the second part of our functional genomics course. This course will introduce you to common technologies in functional genomics studies, including microarrays and next generation sequencing (NGS), with a special focus on RNA-sequencing (RNA-...

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Functional genomics (III): Submitting your data and functional genomics databases

Author(s): Melissa Burke, Laura Huerta

This is the third and final part of our functional genomics course. In this course, we will look at why, when, where to submit your functional genomics data. We recommend that you look at Functional genomics (I): Introduction and designing...

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Functional genomics: An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources

Author(s): Amy Tang

This course will introduce the field of functional genomics and provide an overview of the major resources for this field at EMBL-EBI. Updated in August 2014. For a more in depth look at functional genomics, we have just launched three new courses (...

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Genomics resources: webinar

Author(s): Laura Emery

This 25 minute webinar from Dr Laura Emery provides you with an introduction to EMBL-EBI and the data resources available (recorded on 25th February 2015). The webinar focuses in particular on three core resources - Ensembl, ENA and the Metagenomics...

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Genomics: An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources

Author(s): Giulietta M. Spudich

This course will introduce the field of genomics and provide an overview of the different resources at the EBI which are related to this field. The course is aimed at graduates in the life sciences or related subjects, with an interest in using...

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Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (ELSI): Quick tour

Author(s): Sarion Bowers

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (Global Alliance), which was formed to help accelerate the potential of genomic medicine to advance human health. This Quick tour focuses on the Ethical,...

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GO: Quick tour

Author(s): Rebecca Foulger

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the EBI's Gene Ontology resource. For information about gene ontology annotation, see the UniProt-GOA quick tour .

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GWAS Catalog: Exploring SNP-trait associations

Author(s): Laura Emery, Jackie MacArthur

The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog is a publically available resource of Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) and their results. This course provides an introduction of how to browse SNP-trait associations using the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog.

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HipSci: a UK national iPS cell resource webinar

Author(s): Ian Streeter

The Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Initiative (HipSci) is establishing a large catalogue of human iPSC lines, arguably the most well characterized collection to date. The HipSci portal enables researchers to choose the right cell line for their...

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Human genetic variation (I): an introduction

Author(s): David Armstrong, Melissa Burke, Laura Emery, Jackie MacArthur, Andrew Nightingale, Emily Perry, Sangya Pundir, Gary Saunders

Genetic variation is fundamental to the evolution of all species and is what makes us individuals. Our genes have a large influence on our lives. They affect what we look like, our personalities and preferences and our susceptibility to disease. By...

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Human genetic variation (II): exploring publicly available data

Author(s): David Armstrong, Melissa Burke, Laura Emery, Jackie MacArthur, Andrew Nightingale, Emily Perry, Sangya Pundir, Gary Saunders

Genetic variation is fundamental to the evolution of all species and is what makes us individuals. Our genes have a large influence on our lives. They affect what we look like, our personalities and preferences and our susceptibility to disease. By...

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IMPC: Using the mouse phenotyping portal

Author(s): Terry Meehan

The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) portal allows you to search for phenotypes, disease models and knockout mouse strains for your gene of interest. This course will show you how to use the IMPC portal and what data is available.

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IntAct: Molecular interactions at EMBL-EBI

Author(s): Pablo Porras Millan

This course will show you what kind of information you can find in IntAct (one of the EBI's molecular interactions databases), how to access it, the different tools that can be used to access data and some practical examples on how to search and use...

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IntAct: Quick tour

Author(s): Sandra Orchard

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the EBI's molecular interactions database, IntAct.

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IntAct: The molecular interactions database at EMBL-EBI: webinar

Author(s): Pablo Porras Millan

This two-part webinar from Pablo Porras Millan provides you with an introduction to protein-protein interactions and the molecular interaction database IntAct (recorded on 30th September 2015). IntAct is a central, public repository where molecular...

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InterPro: Functional and structural analysis of protein sequences

Author(s): Alex Mitchell

InterPro is a classification database that provides predictive information about protein sequences. This course will show you what kind of information is available in InterPro, how to access it, and how to search the database..

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InterPro: Quick tour

Author(s): Alex Mitchell

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to InterPro, the EBI's database of protein families, domains and functional sites. For a more detailed walkthrough of InterPro have a look at our InterPro tutorial .

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Introduction to 1000 Genomes Project and IGSR data resources

The 1000 Genomes Project set out to catalogue common human genetic variation, publishing a set of variations based on sequencing of 2504 individuals from 26 populations. Variant calls, sequence data, high-density genotyping chip calls and cell lines...

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Introduction to training with EMBL-EBI

Author(s): Cath Brooksbank

This year is the tenth anniversary of the EMBL-EBI Training Programme! Join Cath Brooksbank to learn about the types of training that EMBL-EBI offers and how you can benefit from it. We welcome students, postdocs, academics, industrial scientists (...

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Large Scale Gene Function Discovery to Support Human Health: The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC)

Author(s): Terry Meehan

The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) is a G7- recognised global research infrastructure that is coordinating the global production of a knockout mouse gene for every protein coding gene. The mice are characterised in a standardised...

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Locus Reference Genomic (LRG) resource: webinar

Author(s): Joannella Morales

This webinar provides you with an overview and demo of the Locus Reference Genomic (LRG) resource - a manually curated reference resource for the reporting of clinically relevant variants. NB: This video works best using Google Chrome and when...

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MetaboLights: Quick tour

Author(s): Kenneth Haug

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the EBI's metabolomics resource: MetaboLights .

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Metabolomics: An introduction

Author(s): Reza Salek, Laura Emery, Stephan Beisken

This course provides a basic introduction into the rapidly emerging field of metabolomics and its importance and applications.

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Metabolomics: molecules of life, an introduction

Author(s): Reza Salek

Join Reza Salek on an introductory tour of metabolomics. This webinar will help you understand what metabolomics is and how it can be used to inform biological research. It will also introduce the basics of the analytical technologies and data...

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myChEMBL: webinar

Author(s): George Papadatos

George Papadatos takes you through myChEMBL - the ChEMBL virtual machine. This video is best viewed in full screen, using Google Chrome. See upcoming webinars from this series.

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Network analysis of protein interaction data: an introduction

Author(s): Pablo Porras Millan

This course provides an introduction to the theory and concepts of network analysis. It explores some of the features of protein-protein interaction networks and their implications for biology. Finally, the course discusses the tools and strategies...

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Ontology Lookup Service (OLS)

Author(s): Simon Jupp

The Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) provides access to over 150 public biomedical ontologies. You can use OLS to search and visualise ontologies, and an API is also provided for programmatic access. Ontologies provide standard terminology for...

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PDBe: Exploring a Protein Data Bank (PDB) entry

Author(s): Sanchayita Sen

This course will show you how to explore the structural information in a PDB entry using the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) - EMBL-EBI's resource for the collection, organisation and dissemination of data on biological macromolecular structures...

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PDBe: Quick tour

Author(s): Sameer Velankar

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe), EMBL-EBI's resource for the collection, organisation and dissemination of data on biological macromolecular structures.

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PDBe: Searching for biological macromolecular structures

Author(s): David Armstrong

The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) is a free and easily accessible resource for biological macromolecular structures. We collect, organise and disseminate data in both the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and the Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB)...

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PDBe: Searching the Protein Data Bank

Author(s): Sanchayita Sen

This course will show you how to search the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) - EMBL-EBI's resource for the collection, organisation and dissemination of data on biological macromolecular structures. The course contains the following mini-tutorials...

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PDBeChem: Searching for small molecules and small molecule fragments

Author(s): Gary Battle

PDBeChem allows you to search for chemical components (ligands, small molecules and monomers) that appear in PDB entries, and discover which protein structures bind a particular ligand. This course will show you how to use PDBeChem and what you can...

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PDBeFold: Searching for structural homologues of a protein

Author(s): Gary Battle

PDBeFold can be used to identify structural homologues in the PDB. PDBe's Secondary Structure Matching service (SSM) allows you to interactively compare, align and superimpose protein structures in 3D. This course will show you how to use PDBeFold...

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PDBePISA: Identifying and interpreting the likely biological assemblies of a protein structure

Author(s): Gary Battle

PDBePISA allows you to explore macromolecular (protein, DNA/RNA and ligand) interfaces and predict the quaternary structure of your protein. This course will show you how to use PDBePISA and what you can do with it. An undergraduate degree in a life...

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Pfam: Quick tour

Author(s): Sara El-Gebali, Lorna Richardson, Rob Finn

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the protein families database Pfam, based at EMBL-EBI. Each protein family is represented by multiple sequence alignments and a profile hidden Markov model, which is used to create a probabilistic...

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PhenoMeNal: accessing metabolomics workflows in Galaxy

Author(s): Namrata Kale, Sijin He, Pablo Moreno

PhenoMeNal ( Phe nome and Me tabolome a Nal ysis) is a standardised e-infrastructure that supports the data processing and analysis pipelines for molecular phenotype data generated by metabolomics applications. This course will give you an overview...

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Phylogenetics: An introduction

Author(s): Laura Emery

This course provides a basic introduction to the field of phylogenetics, with an emphasis on how to read and interpret phylogenetic trees. An undergraduate-level understanding of biology would be an advantage.

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PRIDE and ProteomeXchange: webinar

Author(s): Juan Antonio Vizcaino

Juan Antonio Vizcaino presents this webinar on PRIDE and ProteomeXchange. PRIDE is a resource that stores mass spectrometry-based protein expression data (including e.g. mass spectra, peptide and protein identifications, among other data types)...

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PRIDE: Quick tour

Author(s): Juan Antonio Vizcaino

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the EMBL-EBI's PRoteomics IDEntifications database, PRIDE.

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Protein classification: An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources

Author(s): Amaia Sangrador

This course will provide an introduction to protein classification and basic concepts, such as proteins families, domains and sequence features.

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Protein interactions and their importance

Author(s): Pablo Porras Millan

This course will provide an introduction to molecular interactions, their importance and the methodologies use to generate and capture interaction data.

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ProteomeXchange submissions via PRIDE

Author(s): Juan Antonio Vizcaino

How to submit MS/MS data to ProteomeXchange via PRIDE. This course is aimed at proteomics researchers with data that they want to make available through public-domain databases of proteomics experiments.

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Proteomics: An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources

Author(s): Sandra Orchard

This course will provide an overview of proteomics. We will then introduce resources provided by the EBI related to proteomics.

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QuickGO - Gene ontology annotation

Author(s): George Georghiou

The Gene Ontology Annotation (GOA) project provides high-quality functional annotations to gene products, such as proteins, protein complexes and non-coding RNAs. Currently our database contains over 390 million annotations to 60 million distinct...

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Reactome: Exploring biological pathways

Author(s): Steve Jupe

This course provides an overview to the Reactome pathway database web interface and the database content. For a short introduction to Reactome, please visit the Reactome quick tour .

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Reactome: Exploring biological pathways: webinar

Author(s): Steve Jupe

This two-part webinar from Steve Jupe provides you with an introduction to Reactome and how you can use it to explore biological pathways (recorded on 22 June 2016). Part 1 gives an overview of what Reactome is and why it is important. Part 2...

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Reactome: Quick tour

Author(s): Steve Jupe

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to Reactome, the biological pathway database.

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Reactome: Tools for analysis of biological pathways

Author(s): Steve Jupe

This course introduces the tools available via the Reactome pathway database web interface. For a short introduction to Reactome, please visit the Reactome quick tour . For an intruduction to the Reactome web interface including the Pathway Browser...

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Rfam: Quick tour

Author(s): Sarah Burge

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to Rfam, the EBI's database of RNA families.

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RNAcentral: Exploring non-coding RNA sequences

Author(s): Anton Petrov

RNAcentral is a database of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) sequences that aggregates data from multiple specialised resources and provides a single entry point for accessing ncRNA sequences of all types from all organisms. This course provides a brief...

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RNAcentral: webinar

Author(s): Anton Petrov

This webinar provides you with an overview and demo of RNAcentral - an international database of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) sequences that aggregates data from multiple specialised ncRNA resources. This webinar took place on 28th October 2015. NB: This...

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Structural volume data

Author(s): Martyn Winn

This course provides a basic introduction of volume matching techniques in the field of structural bioinformatics. It explains the use of electron microscopy (EM) and electron tomography (ET) data in creating 3D volume maps of proteins, and the...

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SureChEMBL: Accessing chemical patent data: webinar

This two-part webinar from George Papadatos provides you with an introduction to the chemical patent database SureChEMBL (recorded on 11th March 2015). Part 1 gives an overview of what SureChEMBL is and why it is important. Part 2 provides a demo of...

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Text mining: Key concepts and applications

Author(s): Jee-Hyub Kim, Senay Kafkas

Jee-Hyub Kim and Senay Kafkas from the Literature Services team at EMBL-EBI present this talk on an introduction to text mining and its applications in service provision. The 1st part of this talk focuses on what text mining is and some of the...

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The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog, a curated resource of SNP-trait associations

Author(s): Joannella Morales

The GWAS Catalog is a manually curated summary resource of human genotype-phenotype associations from GWAS publications. The Catalog contains a vast amount of data, encompassing over 38,000 SNP-trait associations from more than 2,800 publications as...

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UniChem: EMBL-EBI’s mapping tool for small molecule database identifiers: webinar

Author(s): Jon Chambers, Anne Hersey

Jon Chambers and Anne Hersey present this webinar on UniChem a simple system developed to cross-reference compounds across databases both internal to EMBL-EBI and externally. UniChem currently has cross-references to 140 million compounds in 30...

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UniChem: Quick tour

Author(s): Jon Chambers

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to UniChem , a compound identifier mapping service. It covers the scientific principles behind the tool, and outlines the use of UniChem and UniChem 'Connectivity Search' to directly locate identical and...

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UniProt peptide search and publications view: webinar

Author(s): Klemens Pichler

UniProt provides the scientific community with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information. This webinar will guide you through the main updates and features on the UniProt website. It...

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UniProt-GOA: Quick tour

Author(s): Rachael Huntley

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to UniProt-GOA, the Gene Ontology Annotation resource. For information about the Gene Ontology, see the GO quick tour .

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UniProt: Exploring protein sequence and functional information

Author(s): Michele Magrane, Sangya Pundir

This course is a guide to the UniProt resource, including what kinds of information it provides and how to access the data using the UniProt website. Some knowledge of biology and proteins is required. Some bioinformatics knowledge is useful but not...

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UniProt: Exploring protein sequence and functional information - webinar

Author(s): Sangya Pundir

In the first webinar , Sangya Pundir shows us how we can use UniProt to explore protein sequence and functional information. The second webinar showcases the latests updates to the UniProt website (webinar recorded on 9th Dec 2015). The third...

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UniProt: Programmatic access to UniProtKB: webinar

Author(s): Klemens Pichler

Klemens Pichler presents this webinar on accessing UniProtKB programmatically. This webinar was recorded on 3rd June 2015. This video is best viewed in full screen using Google Chrome. See upcoming webinars .

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UniProt: Quick tour

Author(s): Michele Magrane

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt). A full tutorial of UniProt can be found here .

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User experience design

Author(s): Tom Hancocks

This course introduces user experience design (UXD) in the context of bioinformatics tools and service development. It provides an overview of basic concepts and links to external resources on UXD where you can learn more.

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User experience design for more user-friendly applications

Author(s): Michele Ide-Smith, Nikiforos Karamanis

Interested in learning how User Experience (UX) design can help you meet your goals? What are the quick wins for knowing your users, designing with your team and getting feedback on your designs? This webinar is for you if you are involved in...

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Using sequence similarity searching tools at EMBL-EBI: webinar

Author(s): Andrew Cowley

This webinar focuses on how to use tools like BLAST and PSI-Search to find homologous sequences in EMBL-EBI databases, including tips on which tool and database to use, input formats, how to change parameters and how to interpret the results pages...

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Visualising protein structures online

Author(s): David Armstrong

Litemol is a new, online macromolecular structure viewer at the PDBe, offering users the chance to easily view PDB and EMDB data in their browser and even on mobile devices. This webinar will introduce users to this fantastic new viewer and explain...

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