International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Practical Course

"Bioinformatics: Computer Methods in Molecular Biology"

co-sponsored by CEI - Central European Initiative

AREA Science Park - Trieste, ITALY

24 June - 1 July 2005

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

	FRIDAY, 24 June
08:30	Course Registration	ICGEB Foyer, W Building
09:15	Welcome Address	Seminar Room, ICGEB Decio Ripandelli (ICGEB, Trieste, Italy)
09:30	Bioinformatics, genomics, knowledge representation: introduction to the course	Sandor Pongor, (ICGEB, Trieste, Italy)
10:45	BREAK
11:30	The ICGEB computer system, course infrastructure	Informatics Laboratory, L2 Building Kristian Vlahovicek, Dario Palmisano (ICGEB, Trieste, Italy)
12:30	Database searching, analysis programs	David Judge (University of Cambridge, UK)
13:30	LUNCH	Cafeteria, Ground Floor, Building C
14:30	Database searching, analysis programs (cont.)	David Judge
18:30	BUS TO HOTEL
	SATURDAY, 25 June
09:00	Database searching, analysis programs (cont.)	David Judge Elisabeth Gasteiger (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Kristian Vlahovicek
13:30	GET TOGETHER	ICGEB premises, W Building
14:30	Database searching, analysis programs (cont.)	David Judge, Elisabeth Gasteiger, Kristian Vlahovicek
18:00	BUS TO HOTEL
	MONDAY, 27 June
09:00	The NCBI services, nucleic acid databases	David Landsman (NIH/NLM/NCBI, Bethesda, MD, USA)
11:00	BREAK
11:30	The NCBI services, nucleic acid databases (cont.)	David Landsman
13:30	LUNCH	Cafeteria, Ground Floor, Building C
14:30	Database searching, analysis programs (cont.)	David Judge, Jack Leunissen (University of Wageningen)
18:00	BUS TO HOTEL
	TUESDAY, 28 June
09:00	Gene-discovery	Luciano Milanesi (CNR, Milan, Italy)
11:00	BREAK
11:30	Gene-discovery	Luciano Milanesi
13:30	LUNCH	Cafeteria, Ground Floor, Building C
14:30	Database searching, analysis programs (cont.)	David Judge, Jack Leunissen
18:00	BUS TO HOTEL
	WEDNESDAY, 29 June
09:00	Protein sequence databases, Swiss-Prot	Elisabeth Gasteiger
10:30	BREAK
11:00	Protein sequence databases, Swiss-Prot (cont.)	Elisabeth Gasteiger
13:30	LUNCH	Cafeteria, Ground Floor, Building C
14:30	The ICGEB servers: Protein domain homology, protein tools DNATools - prediction of DNA properties	Sandor Pongor, Kristian Vlahovicek
18:00	BUS TO HOTEL
	THURSDAY, 30 June
09:00	WWW servers, EBI servers	Kristian Vlahovicek
11:00	BREAK
11:30	WWW servers, EBI servers (cont.)	Kristian Vlahovicek
13:30	LUNCH	Cafeteria, Ground Floor, Building C
14:30	Database searching, analysis programs (cont.)	David Judge, Jack Leunissen
18:00	BUS TO HOTEL
	FRIDAY, 1 July
09:00	Genome computing	Martin Bishop (RFCGR, Cambridge, UK) David Judge
11:00	BREAK
11:30	Genome computing (cont.)	Martin Bishop, David Judge
13:30	LUNCH	Cafeteria, Ground Floor, Building C
14:30	Genome computing (cont.)	Martin Bishop, David Judge
18:00	BUS TO HOTEL