International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Practical Course "Bioinformatics: Computer Methods in Molecular Biology"

Co-sponsored by EMBNet

AREA Science Park, Padriciano - Trieste, Italy
1-6 September, 1997



Programme



MONDAY, 1 September

                                                                                             
08.30      COURSE REGISTRATION                             Foyer, ICGEB, W Building            
                                                                                               
09.15      WELCOME ADDRESS                                 Seminar Room, ICGEB Sándor          
                                                           Pongor, Protein Structure &         
                                                           Function Group Leader, ICGEB,       
                                                           Trieste, ITALY                      
                                                                                               
09.30      INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE                      Sándor Pongor                       
                                                                                               
09.45      BASICS, WWW SERVERS, MAIL SERVERS               Informatics Laboratory, L2          
                                                           Building                            
                                                           Robert Harper, EMBL-EBI,            
                                                           Cambridge, UK                       
11.00      BREAK                                                                               
                                                                                               
11.30      BASICS,  WWW SERVERS, MAIL SERVERS (cont.)      Robert Harper                       
                                                                                               
13.30      LUNCH                                                                               
                                                                                               
14.15      BASICS,  WWW SERVERS, MAIL SERVERS (cont.)      Robert Harper                       
                                                                                               
18.00      END OF SESSION/GET-TOGETHER PARTY               Cafeteria, Ground Floor, Building   
                                                           C                                   
                                                                                               
19.00      BUS TO HOTEL                                                                        


TUESDAY, 2 September

                                                                                               
09.00      BASICS,  WWW SERVERS, MAIL SERVERS (cont.)      Robert Harper                       
                                                                                               
11.00      BREAK                                                                               
                                                                                               
11.30      PROTEIN SEQUENCE DATABASES                      Amos Bairoch, Department Medical    
                                                           Biochemistry/CMU, Geneva,           
                                                           SWITZERLAND                         
                                                                                               
13.30      LUNCH                                                                               
                                                                                               
14.15      PROTEIN SEQUENCE DATABASES (cont.)              Amos Bairoch                        
                                                                                               
18.00      BUS TO HOTEL                                                                        


WEDNESDAY, 3 September

                                                                                               
09.00      NCBI SERVICES, NUCLEIC ACID DATABASES           David Landsman, Computational       
                                                           Biology Branch, NIH/NLM/NCBI,       
                                                           Bethesda MD, USA                    
                                                                                               
11.00      BREAK                                                                               
                                                                                               
11.30      NCBI SERVICES, NUCLEIC ACID DATABASES (cont.)   David Landsman                      
                                                                                               
13.30      LUNCH                                                                               
                                                                                               
14.15      NCBI SERVICES, NUCLEIC ACID DATABASES (cont.)   David Landsman                      
                                                                                               
18.00      BUS TO HOTEL                                                                        
                                                                                               


THURSDAY, 4 September

                                                                                               
09.00      GENOME COMPUTING                                Martin Bishop, HGMP Resource        
                                                           Centre, Cambridge, UK David         
                                                           Judge, Department of Genetics,      
                                                           University of Cambridge,            
                                                           Cambridge, UK                       
                                                                                               
11.00      BREAK                                                                               
                                                                                               
11.30      GENOME COMPUTING (cont.)                        Martin Bishop, David Judge          
                                                                                               
13.30      LUNCH                                                                               
                                                                                               
14.15      VISIT TO THE ICGEB LABORATORIES                 ICGEB, W Building                   
                                                                                               
15.00      GENOME COMPUTING (cont.)                        Informatics Laboratory, L2          
                                                           Building Martin Bishop, David       
                                                           Judge                               
                                                                                               
18.00      BUS TO HOTEL                                                                        
                                                                                               


FRIDAY, 5 September

                                                                                               
09.00      DATABASE SEARCHING, GCG PACKAGE                 David Judge, Jack Leunissen,         
                                                           CAOS/CAM Centre, University of      
                                                           Nijmegen, THE NETHERLANDS           
                                                                                               
11.00      BREAK                                                                               
                                                                                               
11.30      DATABASE SEARCHING, GCG PACKAGE (cont.)         David Judge, Jack Leunissen         
                                                                                               
13.30      LUNCH                                                                               
                                                                                               
14.15      DATABASE SEARCHING, GCG PACKAGE (cont.)         David Judge, Jack Leunissen         
                                                                                               
18.00      BUS TO HOTEL                                                                        
                                                                                               


SATURDAY, 6 September

                                                                                               
09.00      ICGEBnet, DISTANT  PROTEIN HOMOLOGIES,  DNA     Sándor Pongor                       
           BENDING                                                                             
                                                                                               
11.00      BREAK                                                                               
                                                                                               
11.30      ICGEBnet, DISTANT  PROTEIN HOMOLOGIES,  DNA     Sándor Pongor                       
           BENDING (cont.)                                                                     
                                                                                               
13.30      SOCIAL LUNCH/CLOSING OF THE COURSE              Cafeteria, Ground Floor, Building   
                                                           C                                   
                                                                                               
           BUS TO HOTEL