The Bioinformatics Workshop, Prague

Date:

 Monday 2 Wednesday 4 June 2014

Venue: 

National Technical Library, Prague - Computer study hall (03 on 4NP)National Technical Library, 5, 110 01 Praha 1,  Prague, Czech Republic

Application opens: 

Tuesday 06 May 2014

Application deadline: 

Monday 19 May 2014

Participation: 

First come, first served

Contact: 

Frank O’Donnell

Registration closed

Course Overview

This course will provide an introductory overview of some of the most commonly used publicly accessible, tools and resources for genome browsing, functional genomics and phylogenetics. A separate registration will be available for those delegates interested in using proteomics in their research. Delegates will gain hands-on practice of using these data resources, interspersed with some lectures.

Audience

The course is aimed at bench-based researchers in the fields of medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, structural biology and chemical synthesis. The practical exercises use web-browser-based tools and assume little prior experience in bioinformatics.

Learning outcomes

After this course you should be able to:

  • Access, browse and retrieve a range of data types from leading public repositories for genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic data
  • Query leading bioinformatics databases efficiently
  • Use some freely available software to analyse nucleotide sequence data and interpret phylogenetic analyses

Programme

Time Topic Trainer
Day 1 - Monday 2 June
09:00 An introduction to the EBI  Giulietta Spudich
09:30 Exploring genomes with Ensembl - [Course booklet] [Course book answers]  Giulietta Spudich
11:00 Tea/coffee break  
11:30 Exploring genomes with Ensembl  Giulietta Spudich
13:00 Lunch  
14:00 Exploring functional genomics data with Array Express  Karyn Megy
15:30 Tea/coffee break  
16:00 Exploring functional genomics data with Array Express - [Excercises]  Karyn Megy
17:30 Close  
Day 2 - Tuesday 3 June
09:00 An introduction to phylogenetics  Laura Emery
10:30 Tea/coffee break  
11:00 Interpreting phylogenies - [Questions] [Answers] [Basic Tree Thinking Assessment]  Laura Emery
12:30 Lunch  
13:30 Phylogenetic methods - [Data files]  Laura Emery
15:00 Tea/coffee break  
15:30 Phylogenetic methods - [Excercise with Answers]  Laura Emery
17:00 Close  
Day 3 - Wednesday 4 June
09:00 An introduction to proteomic services  Sandra Orchard
10:30 Tea/coffee break  
11:00 UniProt - [UniProt tutorial]  Sandra Orchard
12:30 Lunch  
13:30 IntAct - [IntAct tutorial]  Sandra Orchard
15:00 Tea/coffee break  
15:30 Reactome - [Reactome tutorial]  Sandra Orchard
17:00 Course feedback/End of course  All