Organisers:Chris Evelo (Maastricht University), Egon Willighagen
(Maastricht University), Tom Hancocks (EMBL-EBI), Vera Matser
(EMBL-EBI & DiXa), Celia van Gelder (NBIC)
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.