Oeiras, Portugal
Course Announcement
IB12A
Introductory Bioinformatics
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/IB12A
with David P. Judge, Phil Cunningham and Pedro Fernandes
IMPORTANT DATES for this Course
Deadline for applications: November 30th 2012
Latest notification of acceptance: December 3rd 2012
Course date: December 10th – 14th 2012
Candidates with adequate profile will be accepted in the next 72 hours
after the application until we reach 20 participants.
Overview
The course sets out to introduce an extensive range of computing
facilities vital for molecular biological research. This will be
achieved primarily through “hands on” exercises based around an
investigation of a well documented human disease. How information can
be obtained both by analysis of raw sequence data and by interrogation
of information resources will be demonstrated. In order to enable the
participants to perform sequence analysis on short read sequences, we
will provide a short tutorial on NGS data analysis for beginners.
Objectives
The course is a user course. How to use the various tools is thus the
prime objective. However, where it is useful, the operation of the
programs will be discussed as far as is required. Participants will
know how to set up the programs in an informed fashion, and to fully
understand the output generated. On completion of this 5 day long
training, they will also know how to implement this methodology
elsehwere, using public domain software and data resources.
The course will provide participants with an awareness of a wide range
of bioinformatics tools and sufficient experience to use those tools
in basic investigations.
Target Audience
This course is intended for those wishing to investigate how they
might begin to exploit the ever expanding abundance of computing
resources for molecular biologists.
Course Pre-requisites
Basic understanding of molecular biology and no particular computing
expertise will be assumed.
Thank you for your interest! (deadline for applications Nov 30th)
Pedro Fernandes
GTPB Coordinator
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Pedro Fernandes
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Apartado 14
2781-901 OEIRAS
Tel +351 21 4407912
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt
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Oeiras, P9rtugal
BFB12
Biostatistical Foundations in Bioinformatics
IMPORTANT DATES for BFB12
Deadline for applications: November 17th 2012
Latest Notification of Acceptance: November 18th 2012
Course date: December 3rd – December 7th 2012
With Lisete Sousa and Carina Silva-Fortes
We are proud to annouce the third edition of our Foundations course in
BioStatistics.
Led by the firm hand of two Statisticians that have their research
work centered in the Life Sciences, participants go through a
comprehensive set of short lectures and guided hands-on exercises. The
course revisits concepts bottom-up from probability to classification,
using an exclusive set of bioinformatics examples. It is a five day
opportunity to put statistics back in shape, to acquire confidence in
methods and to learn how to write small scripts using open source
software (R).
*Course description:*
This is one of our “Foundations” type courses, providing a systematic
and detailed review of fundamental concepts and techniques used in
Bioinformatics. Many analytical and inferential methods, regardless of
their novelty, have their niches of application all over the place in
Bioinformatics. Newer techniques such as the ones employed in high
throughput data analysis are not different in this respect. We will be
looking at statistical methods, digging into their inner workings,
wearing the skins of professional statisticians. Attendees can expect
to attend a thorough set of lectures that will reveal the conceptual
frameworks that are needed to understand the methods, and extensive
hands-on practice, exclusively based on biological examples.
*Target Audience*
Everybody using Bioinformatics methods is implicitly using statistical
methods. Most people have had one or more semester courses in
Statistics in their graduate education. For many, Statistics happened
in their lives a long a time ago, and that makes it difficult to go
back and manipulate the concepts with full confidence. Moreover,
proper judgement of the results often calls for a deeper level of
understanding than what is required to solve scholarly exercises.
Attending this course is a chance of revisiting subjects like
experimental design, hypothesis testing, inference and prediction in
an intensive and systematic way. We will look into particular areas
such as Bayesian Inference, Hidden Markov Chains and Multivariate
methods with the attitude, eyes and brains of a statistician that
wants to understand how the methods work.
Methodology
The course will introduce a relatively high number of concepts and
methods. To keep it highly practical, we will spend most of the time
in hands-on sessions.
– We will focus on each method using examples taken from real world
Bioinformatics practice.
– We will then dissect the method, identifying the concepts and
exploring their interrelationships.
– The applicability and limitations of each method will be emphasized.
– The use of the method will be illustrated using appropriate
Bioinformatics tools and biological data resources.
For more information, application procedures, etc. please visit
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/BFB12
Thank you for your interest! (deadlinefor applications Nov 17th)
Pedro Fernandes
GTPB Coordinator
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Pedro Fernandes
Instituto Gulbenkian de Cincia
Apartado 14
2781-901 OEIRAS
Tel +351 21 4407912
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt
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IGC, Oeiras, Portugal
Course Announcement
IPSI12
Introduction to Population Structure Inference
with Louns Chikhi and Vitor Sousa
IMPORTANT DATES for this Course
Deadline for applications: November 30th 2012
Latest notification of acceptance: December 5th 2012
Course date: December 17th – 19th 2012
Candidates with adequate profile will be accepted in the next 72 hours
after the application until we reach 20 participants.
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/IPSI12/
Overview
Genetic data are increasingly used by ecologists and evolutionary
biologists in general. It has thus become important for many
biologists with different levels of experience to produce and analyse
genetic data. In this short course we shall try to take a practical
approach to the analysis of genetic data, but we will also provide
some of the theoretical background required to understand the outputs
of the software used. This course will be organised so as to mix
sessions where important notions are introduced with practicals where
freely available software will be used. While this will not be the
focus of the course, we will also discuss genealogical
(coalescent-based) simulation methods and those based on
forward-in-time simulations. Altogether this will allow to discuss the
potentialities and limitations of the tools available to the community.
In this three-day course we will introduce the main concepts that
underlie many of the population structured models that are frequently
used in population genetics. We will focus on the importance of
demographic history (e.g. effective sizes and migration patterns) in
shaping genetic data. We will go through the basic notions that are
central to population genetics, insisting particularly on the
statistics used to measure genetic diversity and population
differentiation. The course will also cover a short introduction to
coalescent theory, Bayesian inference in population genetics and data
simulation, as they are connected to what makes landscape genetics
today on the basis of multilocus data.
Most theory will be put into practice in practical sessions, analyzing
real and/or simulated datasets. In these sessions, we will
(i) look at measures of genetic diversity and differentiation using GENETIX;
(ii) use methods to detect population structure as implemented in the
programs GENECLASS2 and STRUCTURE;
(iii) use geneland to detect genetic clusters using spatial
information on the sampling locations of individuals, and
(iv) learn how to perform coalescent simulations of genetic data
(using SPAms and ms).
Thank you for your interest! (deadline for applications Nov 30th)
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Upcoming Training Courses in GTPB:
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/BFB12
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/IB12A
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/IPSI12
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Pedro Fernandes
Instituto Gulbenkian de Cincia
Apartado 14
2781-901 OEIRAS
Tel +351 21 4407912
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt