*Workshop FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOINFORMATICS* Organised by ELIXIR Belgium and the VIB Bioinformatics Core Date: 14-15 September 2017 Location: Ghent, Belgium *Goals* This workshop will introduce the basic concepts of comparative and functional -omics data analysis in plants through lectures and practical hands-on sessions. Both plant biologists and geneticists with an interest in bioinformatics, data analysis, and comparative & regulatory genomics should attend this training. After this workshop, you will have a good understanding of the organization and evolution of plant gene families and know how to extract relevant biological information from -omics gene sets. *Summary* DAY 1 Introduction plant comparative genomics (genes, gene families, synteny analysis) + introduction PLAZA platform Functional characterization of plant genes (Families, GO, InterPro) DAY 2 Gene set analysis for different plant -omics data sets: - functional interpretation of RNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq genes using the PLAZA Workbench - co-expression and Transcription Factor analysis *Prerequisites* basic knowledge of genes, genomes, transcript profiling, BLAST, homology, Gene Ontology (no programming skills are required). More info and registration: click here <http://www.vib.be/en/training/research-training/courses/Pages/Functional-Plant-Bioinformatics---PLAZA.aspx> -- Prof. Dr. Klaas Vandepoele Tel. 32 (0)9 33 13822 VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, Belgium --------------------------------------------------------- Lab website: http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/cig/ BIG N2N: http://www.bign2n.ugent.be/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/plaza_genomics ---------------------------------------------------------