Education: Introductory course in bioinformatics--Kenya

Erik Bongcam-Rudloff • March 3, 2009

Education: Introductory course in bioinformatics--Kenya
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DATES: May 4-9, 2009
LOCALE: Nairobi, Kenya

The ILRI/BecA EMBNet node is presenting an introductory course in Bioinformatics for scientists in East and Central Africa in collaboration with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala University (UU) and The 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 new 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

FOR MORE INFORMATION
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
Deadline for submissions is: March 30, 2009