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<p><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0CAAE3">VIB Bioinformatics Training</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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<p align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">January sessions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">IN THIS ISSUE</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#147DA9"><a href="#toc_item_2"><span lang="EN-US">Hands-on introduction to Python programming</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#147DA9">
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#147DA9"><a href="#toc_item_4">Introduction to gene regulation</a>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hands-on introduction to Python programming
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<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">With the help of plenty of hands-on exercises, you will get introduced in Python, the peculiarities of Python and good programming habits. You will learn:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> the basics of Python: different variables, reading files, writing files, conditional statements<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.5pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> to write a basic Python script from scratch<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Requirements</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">: if you want to follow the
<a href="http://bits.cmail19.com/t/r-l-zudirdt-shyuuqkd-d/">Biopython</a> training and you have little/no experience with Python, please register for this training<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Date</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">: 11 and 18 January<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Location</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">: Bioaccelerator, Gent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trainer</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">: Wim Vranken (VIB Structural Biology Research Center)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">More information and registration:</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
<a href="http://bits.cmail19.com/t/r-l-zudirdt-shyuuqkd-h/">VIB website</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">This training will give researchers insight and hands-on experience in the analysis of the regulation of
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">eukaryotic </span></strong>gene expression at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Date</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">: 25 January<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Location</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">: Bioaccelerator, Gent<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Trainer</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">: Pieter De Bleser (IRC, VIB-Ugent)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="line-height:13.5pt"><strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">More information and registration</span></strong><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">:
<a href="http://bits.cmail19.com/t/r-l-zudirdt-shyuuqkd-o/">VIB website</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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