Monday, 27. August 2007

"Protein & Protein families"
S. Lise & M. Pentony (UCL, London, UK)

• Introduction to proteins and protein functions
• Pairwise and Multiple sequence alignment
• Phylogeny
• Functional annotation
  
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Tuesday, 28. August 2007

"Comparative Protein Structure Modelling"
T. Schwede & L. Bordoli (SIB and Biozentrum University Basel, Switzerland)

• Introduction to comparative modeling
• Fold recognition
• Protein Structure and Fold databases
• Template selection
• Target-Template alignment.
• Model building.
• Model quality assessment.
• Example applications (practical).
  
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Wednesday, 29. August 2007

"Access to Genes and Genomes with Ensembl"
G. Spudich (EBI, UK)

• Introduction to Ensembl: origin, goals and organisation of the Ensembl project
• Worked example: guided tour of the most important pages of the Ensembl website
• Data mining with BioMart: retrieving datasets using the data mining tool BioMart
• Advanced access & DAS: uploading your own data, other ways of accessing Ensembl data
  
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Thursday, 30. August 2007

"System Biology"
A. Di Cara (ENFIN, Serono, Geneva, Switzerland)

• Part1: Enabling System biology
• Part2: Modeling interaction and regulatory networks
• Part3: Methods in dynamical network modeling, with emphasis on Boolean models
• Practical: Qualitative network modeling using the SQUAD software

Friday, 31. August 2007

"Analysis of microarray data"
A. Alexa (Max-Planck-Institut, Saarbrücken, Germany) [ detailed program ]