[BBC] [Gtpb] WESRDA13 Bioinformatics Training Course, Announcement

[Pedro Fernandes]

   GTPB - The Gulbenkian Training Programme in Bioinformatics


Applications for the Bioinformatics Training Course

WESRDA13  -  Whole Exome Sequencing and RNA-seq data analysis

with Ignacio Medina and Javier Santoyo-Lopez

are now OPEN!

    IMPORTANT DATES for this Course
    Deadline for applications: *September 27th 2013*
    Notification of acceptance within 72 hours of application
(working days count)
    Course date: *October 8th to October 11th 2013*

Details about the course including instructions on how to apply can be  
found in the appropriate page of the GTPB website

http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/WESRDA13/

We hope that you enjoy it.

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

Course description
High-throughput technologies such as next generation sequencing (NGS)  
are characterized for producing massive a mounts of data. These  
technologies for example can allow to describe all variants in a  
genome or to detect the whole set of transcripts that are present in a  
cell or tissue. However, at the same time, posses new challenges in  
the way the data has to be analyzed, annotated and interpreted which  
are not trivial.

Whole Exome Sequencing produces sequence data using NGS assays and  
allows the study of genetic variations in the exonic regions of all  
genes that can be transformed in biological information at an  
unprecedented level of detail. Traditionally transcriptomic analysis  
has been used to find genes that are differentially expressed among  
distinct experimental conditions, or correlated to diverse parameters.  
Currently, NGS technologies such as RNA-seq can also allow to  
digitally quantify all, known and unknown, transcripts or to discover  
new isoforms and splice sites for all the genes.

However, NGS data analysis can be a major bottleneck for many  
researchers which are still applying inefficient tools for the  
processing of the data and inadequate methods for the interpretation  
of their results in order to have meaningful results. This course  
covers state-of-the-art tools and methods for NGS RNA-seq and exome  
variant data analysis, which are of major relevance in today's genomic  
and gene expression studies.

The aim of this course is to familiarise course participants with the  
latest analysis methodologies and to provide hands-on training on the  
analytical approaches implemented for RNA-seq data and whole exome  
variant analysis.



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