This course will be streamed only for registered participants. Registered participants will receive information from the course organizer in due time.
Using high-throughput technologies, you can identify long lists of candidate genes that differ between two experimental conditions. In order to interpret these gene lists and to discover fundamental properties like gene function and disease relevance, you need to use the annotation linked to a given gene or protein sequence.
The goals of this course and the practical exercises that follow are to give some basic theoretical and practical knowledge on protein sequence databases with a focus on UniProtKB, on the different manual and automated annotation pipelines (such as HAMAP) and, in particular, on the optimum use of UniProtKB. UniProtKB and HAMAP are SIB resources; they are listed in Expasy, the Swiss Bioinformatics Portal.During the theory and the practical sessions, we will discuss questions such as:
This course targets biologists and bioinformaticians who seek to analyze protein data. It will also be useful to programmers and data scientists, be they from academia or industry, who programmatically access protein sequence databases and need to understand the data.
At the end of the course, the participants are expected to:
This course is designed for beginners and there are no requirements.
This course will be streamed, you are thus required to have your own computer with an Internet connection.
The registration fees for academics are 60 CHF and 300 CHF for for-profit companies.
You will be informed by email of your registration confirmation. Upon reception of the confirmation email, participants will be asked to confirm attendance by paying the fees within 5 days.
Deadline for free-of-charge cancellation is set to 06/04/2021. Cancellation after this date will not be reimbursed. Please note that participation in SIB courses is subject to our general conditions.
This course will be streamed using Zoom.
The course will start at 9:00 CET and end around 17:00 CET. Precise information will be provided to the participants in due time.
Coordination: Monique Zahn, SIB training group.
We will recommend 0.25 ECTS credits for this course (given a passed exam at the end of the course).
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Please note that participation in SIB courses is subject to our general conditions.
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For more information, please contact training@sib.swiss.