The Bioinformatics Roadshow is a collaborative effort that is funded by the European Commission as part of the SLING Integrating Activity. The Bioinformatics Roadshow is coordinated by the European Bioinformatics Institute – Europe’s main provider of biological data – and is run in collaboration with our SLING partners, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), the European Patent Office and the BRENDA project.

The course will provide hands-on training on some of the bioinformatics tools and databases developed by EBI. We will concentrate especially on various EBI datasources for functional genomics.

Day 1 will concentrate on human functional genomics using Ensembl and ArrayExpress

Day 2 will concentrate on microbe and plant genomics using Ensembl Genomes and Biomart

Day 3 will concentrate on protein structures using PDBe

Please note:

Days are largely independent and you can register for one or more days as you wish.

A brief overview on subjects covered in each session:

Ensembl Functional Genomics:

• How the Ensembl project annotates functional genomics / regulatory data

• How to browse and retrieve functional genomics / regulatory data in Ensembl

• About our future plans with regard to the annotation of functional genomics / regulatory data

• Mapping of microarray probes
  

Note: these data are for the largest part only available for human.

Link: http://www.ensembl.org

ArrayExpress:

• How to browse and retrieve data from the ArrayExpress public repository of transcriptomics data
• How to submit data to ArrayExpress
  

Link: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/microarray-as/ae/

Ensembl genomes:

• How to navigate Ensembl Genomes and retrieve information.

Link: http://www.ensemblgenomes.org/

PDBe:

• To understand the fundamentals of protein structures - tertiary and quaternary structures and structure quality.

• To learn how to search, retrieve, visualise and analyse structures and their bound inhibitor, or drug molecule environments.

• To analyse similar structures, small structural motifs and similar interfaces.

Link: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/