Introduction to using the Ensembl Browser, Cambridge March 2018

Date:

  Monday 12 March 2018

Venue: 

University of Cambridge - Downing Site, Cambridge,  CB2 3AR, United Kingdom

Application opens: 

Wednesday 03 January 2018

Application deadline: 

Sunday 11 March 2018

Participation: 

First come, first served

Contact: 

Benjamin Moore

Registration fee: 

free

Registration closed

Course Overview

The Ensembl project at www.ensembl.org provides a comprehensive and integrated source of annotation of mainly vertebrate genome sequences. This half day workshop offers participants the possibility of gaining hands-on experience in the use of the Ensembl genome browser but also provides them with the necessary background information. Our sister project at www.ensemblgenomes.org can also be covered if participants are working with bacteria, plants, fungi, protists or (invertebrate) metazoa.

The workshop is primarily targeted at wetlab researchers, and we customise the course for species of interest and to include total beginners to our browser up through frequent users. 

Feedback from previous courses: "There are probably quite few people out there who all assume that Ensembl today is the same as it was years ago. It is not. With many new features and datasets incorporated/interlinked, it offers data exploration like never before. This course was a very useful update on what Ensembl has become" Browser workshop, CRUK, April 2016

"Very useful workshop, certainly one of the most informative and useful I have attended. Delivered by someone who was extremely familiar with the website and its capabilities, not someone who had used it a couple of times and proclaimed themselves to be an expert." Browser workshop, Cardiff, March 2014

If you think you'd like to host a similar course at your institute, you can find out more on the Ensembl workshops page.

 

Audience

wet-lab researchers and bioinformaticians

Modules

  • introduction-ensemblensembl-genomes

Learning outcomes

Participants should be able to:

  • view genomic regions and manipulate the view to add features you are interested in.

  • explore information about genes and their sequences, and gene data in bulk using BioMart.

Programme

Time Topics
09:30-10:30 Introduction to Ensembl and the Region in Detail View
10:30-10:50 Tea/Coffee Break
10:50-12:00 Genes and transcript annotation
12:00-12:30 BioMart