Bioinformatics Training Course IB15F Announcement/reminder

par joyeux_lapin13 Lun 23 Fév 2015 - 4:56

Dear all,

The Applications for the Introductory Bioinformatics course, first
instance in the 2015 Programme, are now OPEN.

IMPORTANT DATES for this Course
Deadline for applications: March 20th 2015
Latest notification of acceptance: March 21st 2015
Course date: April 13th - April 17th 2015

Details are available here:
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/IB15F/

This is an entry level course aimed that those with a reasonable
biological background but no significant experience with
bioinformatics. The course is broadly based around a series of
exercises in which a combination of simple analytical tools and
reference to publicly available databases is applied to the
investigation of a single human gene. The training manual for the
course is comprised of detailed instructions for the tasks undertaken.
Included are, questions (with answers) and discussion of and the
interpretation of the results achieved.

Participants are asked to imagine an interest in the disease aniridia.
Course exercises then provide extremely detailed instruction leading
participants to discover the gene primarily associated with this
disease and all that is interesting about that gene and its protein
products.

This course will also provide a soft introduction to Next Generation
Sequencing (NGS) data analysis. This part of the course aims at
providing basic skills that are needed when one needs to process NGS
data, such as evaluating data quality, trimming sequences, changing
data formats, visualising data, etc. Then, participants will learn how
to address a simple transcriptomics problem, stepwise, using open
source bioinformatics tools.

Important NOTE:
This is one of our most popular courses. It usually gets full very quickly.
Applications are approved and accepted in order of arrival and we only
have 20 seats.

Best wishes
Pedro Fernandes
GTPB Coordinator

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Pedro Fernandes
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Apartado 14
2781-901 OEIRAS
PORTUGAL
Tel +351 21 4407912
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt