ENSGEN09

ENSEMBL: Browsing Genes and Genomes, Mining with BIOMART

Course Timetable (provisional)
ENSGEN09 ENSEMBL: Browsing Genes and Genomes, Mining with BIOMART
Tue, March 31st
Day #1
09:30 - 11:00 Introduction to Ensembl: origin, goals and organisation of the Ensembl project
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Worked example: guided tour of the most important pages of the Ensembl website
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Data mining with BioMart: retrieving larger and/or more complex datasets using the data mining tool BioMart
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Genebuild: how are Ensembl gene and transcripts predictions made?
Wed, April 1st
Day #2
09:30 - 11:00 Comparative genomics and proteomics: orthologues and paralogues, protein families, whole genome alignments and syntenic regions
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 Variations: SNPs
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 Advanced access & custom annotation: other ways of accessing Ensembl data, uploading your own data
16:00 - 16:30 Tea Break
16:30 - 18:00 Help with selected research-related problems that attendees may bring-in.
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Last updated:   March 2nd 2009