Dear All I am pleased to announce that the first short course in Bioinformatics ?Biological databases & Access to the annotated genomes, cancer online resources and microarray repositories? 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ This email may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. It must not be used by, or its contents copied or disclosed to, persons other than the addressee. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and delete the email. This message has been scanned for viruses.