Dear all, The Applications for the Introductory Bioinformatics course, first instance in the 2015 Programme, are now OPEN. IMPORTANT DATES for this Course Deadline for applications: March 20th 2015 Latest notification of acceptance: March 21st 2015 Course date: April 13th - April 17th 2015 Details are available here: http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/IB15F/ 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. Important NOTE: This is one of our most popular courses. It usually gets full very quickly. Applications are approved and accepted in order of arrival and we only have 20 seats. Best wishes Pedro Fernandes GTPB Coordinator -- Pedro Fernandes Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Apartado 14 2781-901 OEIRAS PORTUGAL Tel +351 21 4407912 http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt _______________________________________________ Gtpb mailing list Gtpb@igc.gulbenkian.pt https://lists.igc.gulbenkian.pt/mailman/listinfo/gtpb