Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the SIB Bioinformatics Workshop entitled:

“Introduction to the Analysis and Visualization of Biological Networks with Cytoscape”

This two-day workshop, to be held from Monday July 11 to Tuesday July 12 – 2011,

will provide an introduction to the analysis and visualization of biological networks, as well as a tutorial on Cytoscape, one of the common tools used in biology for network analysis.

The course will cover the following main subjects:
A Biological Network Taxonomy
Analytical Approaches
Visualization Approaches
Introduction to Cytoscape
Cytoscape use cases:
-Expression data analysis
-Clustering of protein-protein interaction networks
-Introduction to plugin development

Important information as well as the registration page are available

Hope to see you there!

For the organizers,

Vassilios Ioannidis

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Vassilios Ioannidis, Ph.D.
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Vital-IT Group
Quartier Sorge, Bâtiment Génopode, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel: +41 21 692 4076 / Fax: +41 21 692 4065
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Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the SIB Bioinformatics Workshop entitled:
“High Performance Computing (HPC) in Life Sciences”

This workshop, to be held on Friday,  25 March 2011, will cover the  following main subjects:
– Identify limits of conventional multi-core machines (PCs) when using life science applications
– Obtain basic theoretical knowledge on high performance computing
– Learn how to use Vital-IT’s computing cluster for scientific applications (including hands-on exercises on Vital-IT’s infrastructure)
– Tips and tricks for effective and efficient cluster usage
– Discuss particular computing needs and requirements of course participants

Important information as well as the registration page are available

Hope to see you there!

For the organizers,

Vassilios Ioannidis

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Vassilios Ioannidis, Ph.D.
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Vital-IT Group
Quartier Sorge, Bâtiment Génopode, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel: +41 21 692 4076 / Fax: +41 21 692 4065
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Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the SIB Bioinformatics Workshop entitled:
“Introduction to Mass-Spectrometry based Proteomics”

This workshop, to be held on Friday 15th April 2011, is dedicated to protein identification by mass spectrometry. Its goal is to give some basic theoretical and practical knowledge on the mass spectrometry (MS) techniques used in proteomics to identify proteins in simple and complex mixtures.

The course will cover the following main subjects:
– Fundamental concepts of mass spectrometry (MS) of peptides and proteins
– Strategies for protein identification with MS data: theory, concepts, variants
– Database searches with MS data: practical examples and exercises
– Validation and interpretation of results
–  workflows and examples of applications

Important information as well as the registration page are available from:
http://edu.isb-sib.ch/course/view.php?id=93

Hope to see you there !

For the organizers,

Vassilios Ioannidis

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Vassilios Ioannidis, Ph.D., Vassilios.Ioannidis@isb-sib.ch
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, www.isb-sib.ch
Vital-IT
Quartier Sorge, Bâtiment Génopode, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel: +41 21 692 4076 / Fax: +41 21 692 4065

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Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the next SIB Bioinformatics Workshop entitled: “De novo genome assembly – 2011”.

Next generation Sequencing technologies deliver huge amounts of short sequences for a relative low price. The data is frequently of low quality (noise and artifacts) and must be cleaned before usage; the assembly steps are often difficult due to the nature of the sequences (repeats, GC content), the quality of the tools and can be very different with a reference (by mapping) or without a reference (de novo). The final results must be evaluated with various criteria. The aim of the course are: (i) learn how to measure the quality of the data, clean and extract the good information (ii) learn to assemble a genome de novo (without a reference) (e.g., SOAPdenovo, ABySS, Velvet).

Please note that participants are required to have basic understanding of working with UNIX command line tools on Linux or MacOSX

The program and registration pages are available at: http://edu.isb-sib.ch/course/view.php?id=91

Please note : the course is already full. If you were interested but could not register, let us know by email, to help us decid if/when we should organize the same course again.

Hope to see you there !
Laurent Falquet

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Dr. Laurent Falquet
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Vital-IT
Génopode, UNIL
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel: +41 21 692 4078
Fax: +41 21 692 4065
Email: Laurent.Falquet@isb-sib.ch
http://www.isb-sib.ch
http://www.vital-it.ch