Global Exchange Lecture Course

European Molecular Biology Organization

 

Bioinformatics Training Workshop : Tools, Resources and Applications

13 - 24 June, 2011 | Tangier | Morocco

Programme

 

week 1 | week 2

 

Week 1  
Monday, 13 June 2011
 

Session I - Introduction to Bioinformatics
P. Cunningham, King's College, University of London, UK

  09:00-10:00 Opening ceremony
  10:00-11:30 Lecture : Major Bioinformatics Portals
  11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
  12:00-13:00 Lecture: Sequence Types
  13:00-14:00 Lunch
  14:00-16:00 Practical :  Locating Sequences -sequence formats
  16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
  16:15-17:00 Q & A participants
     
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
 

Session II - Sequence Alignment
P. Cunningham, King's College, University of London, UK

  09:00-10:30 Lecture :Sequence Alignment  Local and Global  Nucleotides and Peptides
  10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
  11:00-13:00 Lecture :  BLAST  and other Homolgy search engines
  13:00-14:00 Lunch
  14:00-16:00 Practical : BLAST and other Homolgy search engines
  16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
  16:15-17:00 Q & A participants
     
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
 

Session III - Ensemble
Jana Vandrovcova, EBI, UK

  09:00-10:30 Lecture: Introduction to databases
  10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
  11:00-13:00 Lecture:Introduction to Ensembl- Walk-through Ensembl website
  13:00-14:00 Lunch
  14:00-16:00 Practical : Browsing Ensembl exercises
  16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
  16:15-17:00 Practical : BioMart 
     
Thursday, 16 June 2011
 

Session IV - Ensemble
Jana Vandrovcova, EBI, UK

  09:00-10:30 Practical : Comparative Genomics (+ exercises)
  10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
  11:00-13:00 Practical : Variation  +  exercices
  13:00-14:00 Lunch
  14:00-16:00 Lecturer  : Other EBI tools
  16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
  16:15-17:00 Lecturer  : Browsing with your own gene of interest
     
Friday, 17 June 2011
 

Session V - Multiple Sequence Alignment
Cedric Notredame, CRG, Barcelona, Spain

  09:00-10:30 Lecture: Introduction to Protein Substitution Matrices
  10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
  11:00-13:00 Lecture: Searching Protein Databases with Blast
  13:00-14:00 Lunch
  14:00-16:00 Hand on: Introduction to Multiple Sequence Alignments
  16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
  16:15-17:00 Hand on: Protein and RNA multiple Sequence Alignments with the T-Coffee package
     
Saturday, 18 June 2011
 

Session VI - Communications & Social Events

  09:00-10:30 Participants Communications
  10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
  11:00-12:00 Participants Communications
  12:00-13:00 Round table discussion
  13:00-14:00 Lunch
  14:00-15:00 Visit of Pasteur Institute of Tangier
  15:00-17:00 Historical Visit of Tangier
   
Sunday, 19 June 2011
 

Session VIII - Social Events

  08:00-18:00 Historical Visit of Chefchaouen
     
Week 2  
Monday, 20 June 2011
 

Session I - Bioinformatics in Biomedicine
Alphonso Valencia, cnio, Spain

  09:00-10:30 Lecture : Bioinformatics in Biomedicine. An introduction to key developments
  10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
  11:00-13:00 Lecture : Applications of Bioinformatics
  13:00-14:00 Lunch
  14:00-16:00 Lecture : Bioinformatics in systems and synthetic biology
  16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
  16:15-17:00 Poster
     
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
 

Session II - Handling large genomic data sets
Reinhard Schneider, EMBL, Germany

  09:00-10:30 Lecture : Visualization biological data
  10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
  11:00-13:00 Lecture : Analyzing large data sets
  13:00-14:00 Lunch
  14:00-16:00 Lecture:High performance and high throughput computing in biology
  16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
  16:15-17:00 poster
     
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
 

Session III - Genome analysis and Genotyping
Arcadi Navarro, UPF, Spain

  09:00-10:30 Lecture. Introduction to Gene Hunting.
  10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
    lecturer: Hafid Laayouni UPF, spain
  11:00-13:00 Lecture. Designing Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS)
  13:00-14:00 Lunch
  14:00-16:00 Hand on: SNPator, GWASpi & PLINK
  16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
  16:15-17:00 Hand on: SNPator, GWASpi & PLINK
     
Thursday, 23 June 2011
 

Session IV - Statistical Challenges in GWAS
Arcadi Navarro, UPF, Spain

  09:00-10:30 Lecture: Statistical Challenges in GWAS
  10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
  11:00-13:00 Lecture: The Missing Heritability Mistery and Next-Generation GWAS
  13:00-14:00 Lunch
    lecturer : Hafid Laayouni, UPF, spain
  14:00-16:00 Hand on: SNPator, GWASpi & PLINK
  16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
  16:15-17:00 Hand on: SNPator, GWASpi & PLINK
     
Friday, 24 June 2011
 

Session V - System Biology
Juan Antonio G. Ranea, University of Malaga, Spain

  09:00-10:30 Lecturer : Protein networks and systems biology approaches
  10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
  11:00-13:00 Hands on : Computational prediction of protein interactions
  13:00-14:00 Lunch
  14:00-16:00 Hand on : Systematic computational study of protein function
  16:00-17:00 End of the EMBO Global Exchange Lecture Course

 

 

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