[BBC] BioSapiens European School of Bioinformatics in Brussels

[Jacques van Helden]

The Laboratoire de Bioinformatique des Génomes et des Réseaux (BiGRe)  
from the Université Libre de Bruxelles is organizing the
	9th Biosapiens European School of Bioinformatics

The course will run from January 26th to 30th 2009, at ULB (Brussels ,  
Belgium).

The goal of the school is to initiate biologists to the utilization of  
bioinformatics software tools.
The course will cover the following topics:

Mon Jan 26
	Analysis tools and databases for protein sequences
	Teacher: Jennifer McDowall (InterPro team, EBI, UK).
	Tools: UniProt, InterPro, InterProScan.

Tue Jan 27
	Browsing and comparing genomes with EnsEMBL
	Teacher: Giulietta Spudich (EnsEMBL team, EBI, UK).
	Topics: browsing genomes, comparing multiple genomes, variation,  
functional elements, ...
	Tools: EnsEMBL genome browser, BLASTZ, PECAN, ENREDO, ORTHEUS, tBLAT,  
BLAST, ...

Wed Jan 28
	Analysis of regulatory sequences
	Teachers: Morgane Thomas-Chollier, Jean-Valéry Turatsinze, Olivier  
Sand, Matthieu Defrance (BiGRe team, ULB, Belgium)
	Topics: Detection of cis-acting elements in genomic sequences.  
Discovering motifs from promoters of co-regulated genes.
	Tools: Regulatory Sequence Analysis Tools

Thu Jan 29
	Protein structures
	Teacher: Oliver Redfern (CATH group, University College London, UK)
	Topics: accessing and handling protein structures from databases.  
Modelling protein structures.
	Tools: CATH

	Biomolecular networks and pathways
	Teacher: Sylvain Brohée (BiGRe team, ULB, Belgium)
	Topics: bioinformatics approaches to analyze biomolecular networks  
(protein interactions, regulatory networks, metabolic pathways).
	Tools: Network Analysis Tools, CytoScape, STRING.

Fri Jan 30
	Systems biology
	Teachers: Florian Reisinger (EBI, UK), Hedi Peterson (Quretec, Estonia)
	Topics: the ENFIN data integration, workflow management.
		Network reconstruction using gene expression,
		network visualisation with expression data,
		network combining and mining.
	Tools: EnCORE, KEGGAnim, GraphWeb.

More information and registration form are available from the Web site:

	http://www.bigre.ulb.ac.be/9esb/

Registrations are restricted to a  maximum of 40 participants.
The deadline for applications is January 15th 2009.

Contact:
	Olivier Sand <oly at bigre.ulb.ac.be>
	Myriam Loubriat <mloubria at ulb.ac.be>

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