Genetic data are increasingly used by ecologists and evolutionary biologists in general. It has thus become important for many biologists with different levels of experience to produce and analyse genetic data. In this course we shall take a practical approach to the analysis of genetic data, but we will also provide some of the theoretical background required to understand the outputs of the software used. Mornings will usually be devoted to introduce notions that will be applied in the afternoon using freely available software.

In 2008 we are organizing two training courses on ENSEMBL, with emphasys on its use to study variation. 

DNA microarrays constitute, no doubt, a paradigm among post-genomic technologies, which are characterised for producing large amounts of data, whose analysis and interpretation is not trivial. Microarray technologies allows querying living systems in a completely new way, but at the same time present new challenges in the way hypotheses must be tested and results have to be analysed.

This course will provide instruction and hands-on training in protein structures using several public databases and bioinformatics tools freely available on the internet.

Topics include: searching structures in the PDB and their schematic display in PDBSum; exploring the structural classification of proteins in the CATH and SCOP databases; examining the 3-D orientation of catalytic residues using Catalytic Site Atlas; linking functional annotation to structures using ProFunc and InterPro; and investigating domain-domain interactions using iPFAM.

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to apply for travel fellowships available for participants in the 4th ISCB Student Council Symposium at ISMB 2008 in Toronto (Canada).

We are able to provide 7 travel fellowships worth 1000 USD each. http://symposium.iscbsc.org/content/travel-fellowships

Please find in the attachement the next summer school IBSS'08 in BioInformatics & system biology.
The final program will be in the web the first may 2008, so If they are any researchers that is interested to participated by a conference or courses please let me know as soon as possible.

Best Regards

Dr Amal Maurady
Chair of IBSS'06

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/training/handson/course_080509_patterns.html

We would like to inform you about the 12-th issue of the open-access
biological research video-publication Journal of Visualized Experiment
(JoVE). It is freely available online at www.jove.com.

This issue includes video-articles from labs at leading research
institutions, demonstrating advanced experimental approaches in a
variety of areas including neuroscience, bioengineering and stem cells.

Neuronal Cell Cultures from Aplysia for High-Resolution Imaging of
Growth Cones <http://www.jove.com/index/details.stp?ID=662>

This is a reminder.

Applications are open for:

May 21st - 23rd MDAGB08 Microarray Data Analysis using GEPAS and Babelomics
May 27th - 28th ENSGEN08 Browsing genes and genomes with Ensembl
May 29th - 30th ENSAPI08 Ensembl API access, Programming workshop

please go to

http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt

and click on the course titles.

You will find course descriptions, timetables and application instructions.

Sorry if you get multiple posts, and please distribute to people who
might be interested.

The HUPO-PSI Spring Meeting 2008  is quickly approaching, register now!

Come and join us April 23-25th, 2008, at  Hotel Beatriz Toledo in
Toledo, Spain for the Spring Meeting 2008 of the HUPO
Proteomics Standards Initiative.

A unique opportunity to participate in the development of current
standards in Proteomics.

The PSI working groups are targeting to discuss and deliver a number of
standards, including (not exhaustively)