Small molecules, gene products and their interaction EBI Roadshow, Pathway-Network course and DiXa Training Course General information Date:July 1- 5, 2013 Location:Maastricht, the Netherlands Website:http://www.nbic.nl/education/course-overview/pages3/1/coursedetails/small-mo... Organisers:Chris Evelo (Maastricht University), Egon Willighagen (Maastricht University), Tom Hancocks (EMBL-EBI), Vera Matser (EMBL-EBI & DiXa), Celia van Gelder (NBIC) Registration:http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/enrolment/ Contact:Celia van Gelder (NBIC), education@nbic.nl <mailto:education@nbic.nl> Course description This five day course introduces various databases and data analysis tools to get grips on the big data in the life sciences. The course consists of two parts: Part 1 (day 1-3) introduces the advanced uses of the gene and genomes databases, small molecule resources, the protein sequence databases, and interaction and pathway databases at EBI (a.o. UniPROT, ENSEMBL, CHEMBL, IntAct and Reactome). This first part is an EBIRoadshow hosted by UM & NBIC. The second part (day 4-5) focuses on real data analysis using pathway and network approaches with links to the databases covered in first part. Tools that will be used include WikiPathways, PathVisio and Cytoscape. Covered aspects include pathway creation, data preparation for analysis, pathway analysis. network analysis and network extension using target information. This second part is provided by the department of Bioinformatics-BiGCaT at Maastricht University in collaboration with the DiXa FP7 project (www.dixa-fp7.eu) on systems biology approaches in toxicogenomics. The DiXa project will provide examples about (re)use and (re)analysis of large genomics datasets. *Teachers* Denise Carvalho-Silva, Louisa Bellis, Sandra Orchard, Chris Evelo, Martina Kutmon, Christoper Hardt, Stathis Kanterakis, Anwesha Dutta, Egon Willighagen. *Target audience *This course is intended for researchers in Life Sciences, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Pharmacology, Toxicology. *Course Programme* See http://www.nbic.nl/uploads/media/Programme_Maastricht.pdf -- Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder Coordinator Education CMBI Projectleader Education NBIC tel. +31-(0)24-3666120 e-mail:C.vanGelder@cmbi.ru.nl websites:www.cmbi.ru.nl,www.nbic.nl Postal address: CMBI 260 Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre /NCMLS PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen The Netherlands