Upcoming Workshop:

July 7-8, 2005
Microarray Analysis
CBRi Facility, Burnaby, BC

Workshop Leader:
Dr. David Wishart, Professor, University of Alberta

Workshop Overview
This course is intended to introduce the student to the principles and practice of microarray analysis using a combination of lectures and hands-on computer lab sessions.  It will provide a detailed background on different microarray technologies and microarray alternatives.  It will also provide students with a working knowledge of the mathematical, statistical and computational methods that are used in microarray analysis, including clustering, correlation analysis, principal component analysis, neural networks and advanced microarray analysis.  Students will also be introduced to a variety of freeware or web tools to better facilitate their analysis or design of microarrays.

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Past Workshops:

February 23 - 24, 2005 and June 24-25, 2004
Bioinformatics of Virus Genomes
CBRi Facility, Burnaby, BC

Workshop Leader: Dr. Chris Upton, Virologist, University of Victoria, B.C.

Workshop Overview
This hands-on tutorial will provide participants the ability to use bioinformatics software developed for the management and analysis of the DNA/Protein sequences in complete genomes. The focus will be on large viral genomes such as poxviruses and herpesviruses, but the approach is also applicable to bacterial genomes. Upon completion, participants will be able to use readily available bioinformatics software tools for the analysis of viral and bacterial genomes. In addition, they will also be instructed on how to use this software in more advanced ways than commonly used. These tools for sequence data management and analysis have been designed specifically to be user friendly with simple graphical interfaces.

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December 9-10, 2004
Tools in Drug Discovery
CBRi Facility, Burnaby, BC

Workshop Leader: 
Dr. David Wishart, Professor, University of Alberta

Workshop Overview
This hands-on course will introduce students to the principles and practices of bioinformatics in drug discovery using a combination of lectures and hands-on computer lab sessions.  Upon completion, the participants will have a working knowledge of the methods, tools and databases for drug discovery including, referential databases, structure rendering and modeling software, finding drug leads through metabolites and pathways, small molecule searching and comparison, and predicting drug interactions and toxicities.  Participants will also be instructed on how to use docking software and identifying drug target candidates.

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October 14-15, 2004 and May 4-5, 2004
Microarray Analysis
CBRi Facility, Burnaby, BC

Workshop Leaders:
Dr. David Wishart, Professor, University of Alberta
Ian Forsythe, Bioinformatician, Canadian Bioinformatics Help Desk

Workshop Overview
This course is intended to introduce the student to the principles and practice of microarray analysis using a combination of lectures and hands-on computer lab sessions.  It will provide a detailed background on different microarray technologies and microarray alternatives.  It will also provide students with a working knowledge of the mathematical, statistical and computational methods that are used in microarray analysis, including clustering, correlation analysis, principal component analysis, neural networks and advanced microarray analysis.  Students will also be introduced to a variety of freeware or web tools to better facilitate their analysis or design of microarrays.
** NEW** to the October workshop was an Advanced Microarray Analysis module. 

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April 15-16, 2004
Interdisciplinary Workshop
Bioinformatics for Proteomics
CBRi Facility, Burnaby, BC

Workshop Leader:  Dr. David Wishart, Professor, University of Alberta

Workshop Overview
Over the course of 2 days, students will learn a wide variety of topics and subjects including: sequence alignment (methods & algorithms); protein feature identification; sequence analysis using Peptool & Genetool; math and stats for bioinformatics; visualization and homology modeling; threading and structure assessment; protein-protein interactions; and also proteome annotation. A number of different types of software packages (PepTool, GeneTool, Gelscape) and web programs and/or servers will also be introduced.

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