Training
Training events
January 2021
27Preprints discovery 101: Tips & tricks for authors27th Jan - 27th Jan
Preprints enable researchers to rapidly share their work publicly before the formal peer review process. This webinar will demonstrate how to incorporate preprints in your literature search routine by using the discovery tools developed by Europe PMC. We will also share useful tips for posting your pre-prints, claiming a pre-print to your ORCID and tracking your pre-prints’ citations, revisions or recommendations by readers.
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February 2021
1Single-cell RNA-seq analysis using RVirtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
1st Feb - 5th Feb
This virtual course covers the analysis of scRNA-seq data using R and command line tools.
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1EMBL-EBI workshop: University of Pavia, 2021Università di Pavia, Pavia, IT
Università di Pavia - via Ferrata 1, 27100, Pavia, PV, Italy
1st Feb - 11th Feb
This workshop series will provide an overview of a range of EMBL-EBI data resources for early-stage researchers at the University of Pavia.
By invitation
3UniProt for proteomics scientists3rd Feb - 3rd Feb
This webinar will give a brief introduction to the UniProt website and then highlight resources available that proteomics scientists or users with large protein datasets may find useful in analysing their data. This will encompass our proteomes service, how to convert and retrieve ID mappings, and how to carry out a peptide search.
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10Exploring non‐coding RNAs in RNAcentral10th Feb - 10th Feb
RNAcentral is a database of non-coding RNA sequences that provides a unified view of >40 specialised databases. This webinar will give an overview of the data found in RNAcentral as well as the RNAcentral website.
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11Ensembl Browser workshop, University of Cambridge, 11.02.2021Virtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
11th Feb - 11th Feb
Work with the Ensembl Outreach team to get to grips with the Ensembl browser, accessing gene, variation and regulation data, and mine these data with BioMart.
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15Next generation sequencing bioinformaticsVirtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
15th Feb - 19th Feb
This virtual course will provide an introduction to the technology, analysis workflows, tools and resources for next generation sequencing data analysis.
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16Ensembl API workshop, University of Cambridge, 16.02.2021Virtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
16th Feb - 16th Feb
Work with Ensembl to master the Ensembl REST API and flexibly access genome-wide data, such as genes, variants, regulatory features, homologues and alignments.
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22Introduction to multiomics data integration and visualisationVirtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
22nd Feb - 26th Feb
Identify the challenges, strategies and resources for multiomics data integration using biological examples at this virtual course.
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25Integrating knowledge of proteins and small molecules with UniProtKB25th Feb - 25th Feb
This webinar will provide an introduction into how UniProtKB captures and represents knowledge of small molecule metabolites using the Rhea knowledgebase of biochemical reactions, based on the chemical ontology ChEBI, and how UniProt users can access and exploit that knowledge.
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March 2021
1CABANA Workshop: Analysis of Crop Genomics DataUniversidad de los Andes - UniAndes, Bogota, CO
Universidad de los Andes - UniAndes - Cra 1 Nº 18A - 12, 111711, Bogota, CUN, Colombia
1st Mar - 12th Mar
This course will introduce crop biologists to methods and approaches for analysing crop genomics data.
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16Introduction to RNA-seq and functional interpretationVirtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
16th Mar - 19th Mar
Gain an introduction to the technology, data analysis, tools, and resources used in RNA sequencing and transcriptomics at this virtual course.
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April 2021
26Single-cell RNA-seq & network analysis using Galaxy and Cytoscape Virtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
26th Apr - 30th Apr
This virtual 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. In addition to running a basic pipeline, participants will explore single cell networks using Cytoscape.
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May 2021
17Managing a bioinformatics core facility Virtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
17th May - 21st May
This virtual knowledge exchange workshop is an opportunity for managers of bioinformatics core facilities to learn from EMBL-EBI’s service teams, from each other, and from potential users of their services. These facilities play an essential role in enabling research in the molecular life sciences. The landscape 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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17Cancer genomics Virtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
17th May - 21st May
This virtual course will focus on the analysis of data from genomic studies of Cancer. Lectures will give an insight into the bioinformatic concepts required to analyse 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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June 2021
15Bioinformatics for Principal InvestigatorsVirtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
15th Jun - 17th Jun
This virtual course has been designed to provide Principal Investigators (PI's) working in the life sciences with an introduction to the challenges of working with biological data as a research leader. During this course we will not be teaching hands-on bioinformatics analysis, but we will be signposting appropriate training resources to upskill you and your team.
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21Systems biology: From large datasets to biological insightVirtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
21st Jun - 25th Jun
This virtual course, run with Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses, covers the use of multi-omics data and methodologies in systems biology. The content will explore a range of approaches - ranging from network inference to machine learning - that can be used to extract biological insights from varied data types. Together these techniques will provide participants with a useful toolkit for designing new strategies to extract relevant information and understanding from large-scale biological data.
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28Summer School in bioinformaticsVirtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
28th Jun - 2nd Jul
This virtual 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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July 2021
11Proteomics bioinformaticsVirtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
11th Jul - 16th Jul
This virtual course, run jointly with Wellcome Genome Campus Advanced Courses and Scientific Conferences, provides hands-on training in the basics of mass spectrometry and proteomics bioinformatics, search engines and post-processing software, quantitative approaches, MS data repositories, the use of public databases for protein analysis, annotation of subsequent protein lists and incorporation of information from molecular interaction and pathway databases.
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September 2021
27Mathematics of life Virtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
27th Sep - 1st Oct
This virtual course will provide participants with an introduction to network analysis as well as modelling resources, tools and approaches used in systems biology.
November 2021
9Metagenomics bioinformaticsVirtual, Hinxton, GB
Virtual - EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
9th Nov - 12th Nov
Gain knowledge of the tools, processes and analysis approaches used in the field of metagenomics. This virtual course will cover the metagenomics data analysis workflow from the point of newly generated sequence data. Participants will explore the use of publicly available resources and tools to manage, share, analyse and interpret metagenomics data.
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Online courses
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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(s): Joanna Argasinska
Introduction to structural biology and related resources at EMBL-EBI.
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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowDarren 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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(s): Gary Saunders
This Quick tour provides a brief introduction to the European Genome-phenome archive (EGA).
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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(s): Paul Kersey
This quick tour provides a brief introduction to Ensembl Genomes , the non-chordate genome browser.
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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(s): Sandra Orchard
This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the EBI's molecular interactions database, IntAct.
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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowThe 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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(s): Kenneth Haug
This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the EBI's metabolomics resource: MetaboLights .
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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(s): Juan Antonio Vizcaino
This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the EMBL-EBI's PRoteomics IDEntifications database, PRIDE.
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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(s): Steve Jupe
This quick tour provides a brief introduction to Reactome, the biological pathway database.
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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(s): Sarah Burge
This quick tour provides a brief introduction to Rfam, the EBI's database of RNA families.
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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowThis 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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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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nowAuthor(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...