[BBC] [Gtpb] Introductory Bioinformatics Training Course IB15S - Announcement

[Pedro Fernandes]

Dear all,

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

    IMPORTANT DATES for this Course
    Deadline for applications: December 9th 2015
    Latest notification of acceptance: December 10th 2015
    Course date: December 14th - April 18th 2015

Details are available here:
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/IB15S/

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

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