ENSEMBL, a joint scientific project between the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, will be organizing a workshop on rat genomics and models on December 4 and 5, 2014.
ENSEMBL have just released the first set of golden genes in rat, i.e. the merge between the Ensembl automatic and the Havana manual annotation:
http://www.ensembl.org/Rattus_norvegicus/Info/Index
The ‘Ensembl workshop: browser and tools for accessing the Rat genome’
will consist of talks by different members of the Ensembl team, live demos and hands-on exercises.
Registration is free on a first come, first served basis. Simply fill out this form:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FP5DFD7
The only pre-requisites are a general knowledge of molecular biology and genomics, in addition to familiarity with web-based genome browsers.
The detailed program is depicted below:
• Day I 04/12/14 (14:00-18:00)
Ensembl Project: Introduction
Ensembl Browser: Live demo
Ensembl Tools: BLAST/BLAT, BioMart
• Day II 05/12/14 (09:30-13:30)
Ensembl Genebuild: Annotating rat genes
Ensembl Variation: Sequence variants in the rat genome
Ensembl Tools: VEP, REST
Workshop wrap up and feedback
The event organizer is P. P. Jemma Beard, from whom more details are available at:
P.P. Jemma Beard (Miss)
Conference & Events Organiser
Wellcome Trust Advanced Courses and Scientific Conferences
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton, Cambridge
CB10 1RQ
UK
Direct Tel: +44 (0) 1223 495120
E-mail: [email protected]