DATES: January 20-22, 2009
LOCALE: Birla Institute of Scientific Research, Jaipur, India

BISR is known for providing a high quality training in advance area of biotechnology and bioinformatics. This workshop will enable participants to learn about the current trends in genome technologies and bioinformatics approaches that are being used to decipher and analyze genome of an organism. The workshop will feature morning lectures, demonstrations from the experts with evening hands-on session in bioinformatics lab.

The topics to be addressed during the workshop include: Overview of Computational Genomics, Bioinformatics Resources and Information Retrieval, Genome Sequencing Technologies, Sequence Alignments: Pairwise, BLAST and FASTA tools, Genome Assembly and Annotation, Comparative Genomics, Genomics in Drug Discovery / Personal Genomics, Genome Analysis using Online Tools, GCG and Exome Sequence Analysis Package, Microbial Genomics, Multiple Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetics Tree Reconstruction.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE

Last date of registration is 10th January 2009. Application form and brochure can be downloaded from the website.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Visit http://www.bisr.res.in or email to the convener at training.bisr[at]gmail.com

URL: http://www.bisr.res.in/bioinfo/workshop/comp_genomics_jan09/bioinfo_jan.php