[BBC] Practical Bionformatics course for Bench Scientsts: Protein Function Prediction

[Aidan Budd]

Dear BBC-listers

Together with several others I'm running an EMBO Practical Course in 
Berlin in September this year, that focuses on helping bench biologists 
use computational tools to analyse and predict protein function, with an 
emphasis on protein-protein interactions.

More information is given below.

If you'd ike to attend, then please apply - and/or if you know other 
scientists for whom it might be interesting e.g. those working in your 
institute/department, would be great if you could forward this 
announcement on to them.

>From this page there's a link to the poster that you might also like to 
print and display at your workspace.

http://events.embo.org/12-comp-ppi/index.html

Thanks and best wishes,

Aidan

RE: Course on Computational Analysis of Protein-Protein Interactions for 
Bench Scientists 2-8.9.2012


EMBO Practical Course: Computational analysis of protein-protein 
interactions for bench biologists

2nd - 8th September 2012, MDC Berlin, Germany

 - How can bioinformatics help me predict/analyse my protein's 
interactions?
 - Which databases give information on existing experimental data on my 
protein's interactions?

Focusing on these, and other related questions, this course aims to help 
bench scientists become more effective at exploiting the wide range of 
commonly-used bioinformatics tools that can be used to identify, 
understand, and predict protein-protein interactions (PPIs) by analysing 
their structure, sequences, and other features.

The target group for the course are experimental scientists needing to 
analyse PPI data in their work, and who have limited experience using 
bioinformatics tools and resources that can help enhance their 
understanding and analysis of this, and related, data.

The course covers analyses and tools that are applied **after** potential 
PPIs have been identified i.e. it does not cover analysis of the raw data 
from e.g. mass spectrometry using tools such as Mascot, PEAKS, SPIDER etc.

Course trainers include developers of many commonly-used tools including 
Cytoscape, CLUSTALX, Pfam, IUPRED, STRING, STITCH, REFLECT, ScanSite, ELM, 
and PhosphoELM. In addition, many other key resources will be covered, for 
example BLAST, JalView, SMART, PyMOL, PISA and UniProt. Most tools used 
during the course are web-based and can be used, free of charge, by 
academic scientists worldwide.

To apply for the course, fill in the online application form linked to 
from this page:

http://events.embo.org/12-comp-ppi/application.html

The registration deadline is Friday June 15th 2012.

There is a course fee of 200 euros for academics, 1000 euros for 
scientists from industry.

Places on the course are limited; applicants will be selected on the basis 
of the extent to which we expect their own work would benefit from 
attending the course. Thus, applicants are advised to highlight in their 
application both (i) clear examples of where they need to apply these 
methods in their current work and (ii) the extent of their previous 
experience using such approaches.
                                                                                                                                               
Please contact the organisers (Miguel Andrade 
miguel.andrade at mdc-berlin.de; Aidan Budd aidan.budd at embl.de; Toby Gibson 
gibson at embl.de; Denis Shields denis.shields at ucd.ie) if you have questions 
on scientific aspects of the course, or Michaela Herzig 
(michaela.herzig at mdc-berlin.de) if you have questions concerning 
logistics/administration.