Training Courses held in Previous Editions

Thematic courses:
Applied Malaria Bioinformatics
Population Genetics and the use of Genetic Markers
DNA and Protein Sequence Evolution
Functional and Comparative Genomics
Microsatellite Markers Bioinformatics
Human Genome Bioinformatics
Gene Identification and Linkage Analysis
Gene Identification and Protein Functional Analysis
Management of DNA Sequencing Projects
Management of Biological Collection Data
Protein Structure and Function Prediction from Sequence Data
Molecular Evolution, Phylogeny and Adaptation
Microarray Data Analysis using GEPAS and Babelomics
Browsing genes and genomes with Ensembl
User Level Ensembl - genome exploration
User Level Ensembl - mining genomes for SNPs
Ensembl API access, Programming workshop
Perl & BioPerl for biomedical researchers
Immunoinformatics

General Introductory courses, held once or twice per year
Typical contents
o Introduction, What is Bioinformatics?
o Sequence Analysis in High Performance Computing platforms
o Information Resources available through the Internet
o Pairwise Alignments
o Database Searching Methods
o Dynamic Programming
o Multiple Sequence Alignments
o Protein Sequence Analysis
o Patterns and Profiles
o Analysis of Mutations