Working with the Human Genome Sequence

24-27 March 2014

Instituto de Higiene, Montevideo, Uruguay

Application deadline: 29 November 2013

This 4-day workshop provides an intensive introduction to bioinformatics tools freely available on the internet, focusing primarily on the Human Genome data. Students will be given hands-on training in the use of public databases and web-based sequence analysis tools. All course materials will be available on the web, and students will have the opportunity to ask questions of the instructors as they apply what they have learned. Each student will have access to a desk-top PC for the duration of the course.

The course is limited to 20 participants and will be held in English.

Topics

• Sequence formats and retrieval
• Genome browsing
• De novo analysis of sequence
• Exploring function and disease
• Sequence variation
• Comparative sequence analysis

For more information and to apply, please visit the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute website.