[BBC] [Gtpb] GTPB Course announcement / Reminder - Transcriptome Analysis and Automatic Func. Annotation

[Pedro Fernandes]

Course Announcement / Reminder

Applications are OPEN until May 7th 2013
Early decisions available.

*TA-AFADM13*
Transcriptome Assembly, Automatic Annotation and Data Mining

with Ana Conesa and Fernando Garcia

  IMPORTANT DATES for TA-AFADM13
    Deadline for applications: May 7th 2013
    Notification of acceptance dates:
         EARLY: Apr 19th 2013 (on special request, see Application)
         NORMAL: May 8th 2013
    Course date: May 20th - May 23rd 2013

http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/TA-AFADM13

This course is particularly suitable for those seeking training in  
using NGS data for tanscriptomics (RNA-seq), and in extensively  
annotating with Blast2GO, the most popular and powerful tool for this  
purpose.

Course description:

This is a combined course in RNA-seq and functional annotation aimed  
at scientists working in next generation sequencing transcriptomics  
who want to extract the best possible information from their data.

The first part of the course is a practical tutorial on Blast2GO, the  
most popular framework for functional annotation of sequences.  
Participants will also learn how to generate de novo functional  
labels, such as GO terms and KEGG pathways, for their sequence data  
and how to extract relevant information from these annotations, i.e.  
visualization and enrichment analysis using the Gene Ontology. The  
second part of the course covers many relevant aspects of RNA-seq  
analysis, form quality control, to mapping, reconstruction of  
transcripts and differential expression. Participants will learn how  
to deal with RNAseq data both in the presence and absence of a  
reference genome.

At the end of the course, participants can expect to have acquired  
skills to use multiple software tools to analise RNA-seq data and use  
Blast2GO.

The course will be based on the use of Blast2GO application and will  
mainly comprise exercises and practical cases. Participants may bring  
their own data.

*Who should attend?*
Experimentalists and bioinformaticians working on EST, NextGeneration  
Sequencing and microarray design projects, specially (but not  
exclusively) of non-model species. No programming knowledge is required.

*Course Pre-requisites:*
Basic knowledge in Molecular Biology and Statistics.


Pedro Fernandes
GTPB Coordinator

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


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