Public Bioinformatics Tools and Databases

This course is given as part of the Research School in Genomics and Bioinformatics. For graduate students in the Research School, the course is worth two credit points. This course is in two parts; both will be held in the Matematiskt Centrum, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg.

Part 1:

Dates:	11:00 Wednesday 17 April 2002 to 15:00 Friday 19 April 2002
Location:	Matematiskt Centrum, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg
Organiser:	Björn Olsson, University of Skövde
Course materials for part 1

Part 2:

Dates:	11:00 Thursday 23 May 2002 to 15:00 Saturday 25 May 2002
Location:	Matematiskt Centrum, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg
Organiser:	Graham Kemp, Chalmers University of Technology
Course materials for part 2

Course Overview

Part 1 of this course will give an overview of data collections and bioinformatics tools that are publicly available, including biosequence data collections (nucleotide, amino acid, and EST sequences), protein structure collections, and literature reference collections. Tools covered will include those for sequence similarity searching, motif identification, protein family prediction, protein secondary and tertiary structure prediction, and transmembrane prediction. Students will be encouraged to find and use other data collections and tools relevant to their research projects.

Part 2 of this course will look at database management systems. In the first two days we shall look at important database concepts, including system architecture, schemas, keys, data models and query languages. The final day will focus on "Modelling Biological Data in Hierarchies", aiming to raise awareness of the different motivating factors for constructing hierarchies in object databases, in object-oriented programs, in hierarchical vocabularies, and in frame-based systems; to look at natural hierarchies in biological data sets; to examine the role of inheritance in different kinds of computer system; to consider how these different kinds of hierarchies can co-exist with one-another.

Registration

An on-line registration form will be available soon on the Research School in Genomics and Bioinformatics web site.

For further information, please contact:

Camilla Jacobsohn
Mathematical Statistics
Chalmers
SE-412 96 Göteborg
SWEDEN

E-mail: camillaj@math.chalmers.se
Phone: +46 31 772 3504
Fax: +46 31 161973