[BioC] Bioinformatics course - October 2011 Registration is now open

[Claude Chelala]

Dear All

I am pleased to announce that the first short course in Bioinformatics
³Biological databases & Access to the annotated genomes, cancer online
resources and microarray repositories² organised by the Barts Cancer
Institute Bioinformatics team is now scheduled for Wednesday 26 October 2011
in Sir Anthony Dawson Hall, Charterhouse Square Campus. More on website
http://www.bci.qmul.ac.uk/study-with-us/bioinformatics.html

I should be grateful if you could circulate my email to groups within your
department or Institute who may be interested in attending our course.

Places are limited to 20 participants per course and on a first-come
first-served basis. Please contact cancercourses at qmcr.qmul.ac.uk and
register to secure your seat.

Description
This is a one-day introductory course to using publicly available databases.
It aims to provide molecular biologists with basic knowledge on what
information can be found and where, as well as how can the information be
accessed/retrieved. A variety of examples of use, which a user might require
for a research or PhD project, will be presented.

Audience
This course is aimed for students or bench scientists who need to use
available databases to answer biological questions. No prior knowledge of
using the available computer resource is required.

Content
The course is designed for beginner level and is structured to include both
theory and practical exercises.
    EUR General sequence databases
    EUR Access to sequenced genomes:
        ­ The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
        ­ The Ensembl project
        ­ The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) Genome Browser
    EUR Query Systems:
       ­ BioMart and Entrez
    EUR Specialised databases
    EUR Human genes and genetic disorders catalog:
        ­ Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
    EUR Cancer resources and data portals:
        ­ The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA)
        ­ International Cancer genome Consortium (ICGC)
    EUR Microarray data repositories and mining systems:
        ­ Genome Expression Omnibus (GEO)
        ­ ArrayExpress Archive and Atlas
Practical sessions
    EUR Using and querying databases for sequenced genomes data and performing
in-depth data analysis for:
        ­ Genes, transcripts and proteins from different transcriptome and
proteome models:
       ­ NCBI, Ensembl and UCSC
       ­ Exonic, intronic and promoter regions
       ­ Chromosomes and chromosomal regions
    EUR Using and querying cancer online resources:
       ­ TCGA and ICGC
    EUR Using and querying microarray data repositories:
       ­ GEO and ArrayExpress Archive/Atlas

For additional course information and online application, please visit:
http://www.bci.qmul.ac.uk/study-with-us/bioinformatics.html

Regards
Claude Chelala



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Dr Claude Chelala
Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics
Barts Cancer Institute - a CR-UK Centre of Excellence
Queen Mary University of London
John Vane Science Centre
Charterhouse Square
LONDON
EC1M 6BQ
Tel: +44 (0)20 7882 3570
Fax: +44 (0)20 7882 3884
email: c.chelala at qmul.ac.uk
web page: http://www.bci.qmul.ac.uk/staff/item/claude-chelala.html
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