BI211 Protein-Protein Interactions
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Objectives
This course will dig into some of the fundamental issues concerning protein-protein interactions (PPIs), including their need and use in research. It will introduce various tools and provide examples for finding true, positive interactors from Web searches and interfaces. The exercises and take-home messages will encourage participants to give the topics some thought and then hopefully build some excitement about the top-down approach of systems biology involving protein-protein interactions.
After completing the course, students should be able to understand and find answers to the following questions:
- Whither systems biology?
- Why PPIs? What else does systems biology involve?
- What has made systems biology distinct from bioinformatics?
- Would PPIs bring out a function for umpteen orphan genes?
- What are the types of interaction data and their layouts?
- What are the online tools for analyzing networks?
- How good are the high-throughput methods employed to measure interactions?
- How are interactions validated?
Target audience: The course requirement is that you be a graduate or pursuing graduation from biology and a basic knowledge of computer science and molecular biology. You should be able to download Osprey from www.biodata.mshri.on.ca/osprey/
Instructors
- Gary D. Bader works on biological network analysis and pathway information resources as an Assistant Professor at The Donnelly Centre at the University of Toronto. His home page is at http://baderlab.org/.
- Prashanth Suravajhala is on the Board of Directors of Bioinformatics.Org.
Program
The taught program includes maximum of EIGHT hours covering the following topics on three days. Ample time is set aside for the participants to digest the sessions. Hence alternative days of taught program are arranged. The participants who miss the live lectures can view the recorded talks some other time.
Day 1: (Prash Suravajhala)
- Bioinformatics to Systems Biology: An essential ascent
- Introduction to Protein-Protein interactions: A Computational Biologist's perspective
- Why Systems Biology? Computational Systems Biology vs. Molecular Systems Biology
- Assays, tools and techniques in PPIs: Pros and Cons
Day 2: (Gary Bader)
- Types of interactions and networks
- Data validation and integration
- Networkology: Data representations, capabilities of networks
- A look at a sample PPI data
- Introduction to Cytoscape, Osprey and Ingenuity
- Future challenges
Day 3: (Prash Suravajhala and Gary Bader)
- Exercises using Osprey: A short project
- Exercises using iHOP, String, Bind, Genecards, MINT, HPRD
- Summary, take home messages and evaluation
Scheduled courses
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Please also check the course tuition rates and discounts.
Registration deadline: When full
Tuition & discounts
- Live instruction held on-line
- For-profit & government: $1,000 USD
- Non-profit & self-pay: $600 USD
- Live instruction held on-site
- For-profit & government: $1,200 USD
- Non-profit & self-pay: $800 USD
- On-demand instruction held on-line
- For-profit & government: $600 USD
- Non-profit & self-pay: $400 USD
Additional discounts are available as follows:
- Professional members: 20% discount
- Limited scholarships may also be available for those residing in low-income economies (please inquire).
Logistics
The necessary software, lecture notes and exercises will be provided.
Live instruction held on-line
On-line/live courses use the WebEx on-line meeting system. Access information will be provided prior to the start of the course. Unless otherwise noted, each lecture begins at 16:00 GMT and runs for about two hours, depending on the topics covered.
For those who cannot attend the lectures at those times, the lectures will be recorded and placed on the course website as AVI video files each day, within one day. Students will also be able to communicate with the instructor and other students via the course forums. Lecture attendance is therefore not required.
Since this will be an interactive, hands-on workshop, all attendees will need a computer with a broadband Internet connection (1 Mbps or faster is strongly recommended for those watching the live lecture), a sound card with speakers, a modern Web browser, and Java. A microphone and webcam are not required but may be used.
Certification
This course is certified by the Bioinformatics Organization, Inc., the largest international affiliation in the field, and it will count as 6 "Continuing Scientific Education" (CSE) units (one unit per contact hour) within the Organization. Students completing the course will receive a certificate attesting to that.
Additional information
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