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

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Prof. Dr. Klaas Vandepoele
Tel. 32 (0)9 33 13822
VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University
Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, Belgium
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Lab website: http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/cig/
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