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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Metagenomics Approaches and Data Analysis (2nd edition)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<u>Date:</u> March 31 – April 2, 2014 <br>
<u>Location:</u> Nijmegen, the Netherlands<br>
<u>Course coordinators</u>: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";background:white">Sacha van Hijum (Radboudumc/NIZO food research), Bas Dutilh (Radboudumc/CMBI), Celia van Gelder (Radboudumc/NBIC/BioSB)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><br>
<u>Website & registration:</u> <a href="http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/course-metagenomics-approaches-and-data-analysis/">
<span style="color:windowtext">http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/course-metagenomics-approaches-and-data-analysis/</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">The Metagenomics course covers Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics of prokaryotes, eukaryotes and viruses. Topics are Metagenomics-specific issues like calling
taxa, functional annotation, metagenome assembly and comparative Metagenomics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Target audience<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">The course is aimed at PhD students and post-docs or researchers with a similar level, but scientific programmers and data analysts with a background in biology
and bioinformatics may also attend. Participants will be invited to introduce their own research questions. Towards the end of the course remaining questions specific to your research will be discussed with the group.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Course programme<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">The programme for the course can be found at
<a href="http://biosb.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Program_Metagenomics_2014_v2.pdf">
<span style="color:windowtext">http://biosb.nl/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Program_Metagenomics_2014_v2.pdf</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">BioSB Course Programme</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">The course portfolios of NBIC (bioinformatics) and NCSB (systems biology) will be integrated and continued in the Netherlands Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Research School (BioSB). The Education Portfolio of BioSB can be found at <a href="http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/">
<span style="color:windowtext">http://biosb.nl/education/course-portfolio/</span></a>.
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<b>More information</b></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">For more information about the course you can contact Celia van Gelder at
<u><a href="mailto:education@nbic.nl">education@nbic.nl</a></u>. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">Coordinator Education CMBI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">Projectleader Education NBIC<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">tel. +31-(0)24-3666120<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><a href="mailto:C.vanGelder@umcn.nl"><span lang="EN-US">Celia.vanGelder@radboudumc.nl</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><a href="http://www.cmbi.ru.nl/"><span lang="EN-US">www.cmbi.ru.nl</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">,
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><a href="http://www.nbic.nl/"><span lang="EN-US">www.nbic.nl</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">CMBI 260<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas">Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre /NCMLS PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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