Please complete these challenges before our training day on Tuesday 2nd June 2026. The purpose of these challenges is to become familiar with the applications we will be using during the course so you can make the most of your learning time.

You can find instructions, guidance and helpful hints and tips for the tools we will use during the course in the help sheets section of this handbook.

Challenge 1 – Slack

Please access the course Slack workspace (using your full name as the username) and click on the #social-chat channel.

Add a hello message to this #social_chat channel, and let us know which country you will be dialling in from. Bonus points if you leave us a cool fact about your location!  

Challenge 2 – Pre-course reading

Please read the session overviews included in this document. If you have any question specific to any session, you may add your questions in advance in this Q&A document – Q&A document for the course.

Following are a few reading materials suggested r by the trainers to help you prepare for the course:

• AlphaFold: A practical guide
• InterPro: Functional and structural analysis of protein sequences
• UniProt: Exploring protein sequence and functional information