[BBC] [Gtpb] Introductory Bioinformatics IB16 . course announcement

[Pedro L. Fernandes]

The Gulbenkian Training Programme in Bioinformatics

Applications for the bioinformatics training course

IB16S
Introductory Bioinformatics (Second course in 2016)
- our entry level course with a soft introduction to NGS data analysis
with David P. Judge, Pedro Fernandes and Daniel Sobral

    IMPORTANT DATES for this Course
    Deadline for applications: November 30th 2016
    Course date: December 12th - December 16th 2016

Candidates with adequate profile will be accepted in the next 72 hours  
after the application until we reach 20 participants.

Overview

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.
Objectives

The operation of the various programs used in the exercises will be  
explained, but only to the extent that allows a user to select  
parameters intelligently and to interpret results.

The course will provide participants with an awareness of a wide range  
of bioinformatics tools and sufficient experience to use those tools  
in basic investigations with a relatively high degree of user  
independence.

In the training course design, this is intentionally built-in, to  
allow us to show a wide range of analytical techniques while providing  
enough experience to break the ice in all of them.
Target Audience

This course is intended for those wishing to investigate how they  
might begin to exploit the ever expanding abundance of computing and  
data resources for researchers seeking help in using them.

Best,
Pedro Fernandes

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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

Upcoming courses:
AAIRR16 - Analysis of Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoires, Nov 2
AET16 - Applied Evolutionary Theory, Nov 7
IBSTAT16 - Introductory Biostatistics for Biologists, Nov 14
IB16S - Introductory Bioinformatics, Dec 12





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