Introductory course in Bioinformatics 4-9th May 2009 Nairobi, Kenya

Introductory course in Bioinformatics 4-9th May 2009 Nairobi, Kenya

The ILRI/BecA EMBNet node is presenting an introductory course in Bioinformatics for scientists in East and Central Africa in collaboration with Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala University (UU) and Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics (LCB) funded by SIDA Sweden.

Objective
The objective of the course is to introduce young scientists to, and encourage application of, bioinformatics/computational biology in their research and to present some of the biological resources available on the ILRI-BecA bioinformatics platform.

Programme
Day 1 - Introduction to Linux operating system
Day 2 - Introduction to Bioinformatics and Biological Databases
Day 3 - EMBOSS and wEMBOSS sequence analysis package
Day 4 - Sequence analysis
Day 5 - Ensembl
Day 6 - Multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetics

Details of the course with the link to the online application form can be found here: http://hpc.ilri.cgiar.org/ILRI2009/Welcome.html

Deadline for submissions are: 30 March 2009