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Training events

January 2017

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Ensembl Browser Workshop- University of Nottingham - 23rd-24th January 2017
University of Nottingham - University Park, Nottingham,  NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
23rd - 24th Jan

Work with the Ensembl Outreach team to get to grips with the Ensembl browser, accessing gene, variation, comparative genomics and regulation data, and mine these data with BioMart.

By invitation

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Bioinformatics
Genomics
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EMBL-EBI: Introduction to EMBL-EBI resources
University of Cambridge - Downing Site, Cambridge,  CB2 3AR, United Kingdom
23rd Jan

An introduction the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute.

First come, first served

Course
Data search, query and retrieval
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EMBL-EBI: Introduction to ontologies
University of Cambridge - Downing Site, Cambridge,  CB2 3AR, United Kingdom
27th Jan

This workshop will give an introduction to the basic concepts of ontologies and how they are useful in biological applications. After a brief overview of some existing resources, we will focus on the Gene Ontology, annotations made using the Gene Ontology and tools leveraging those for biomedical discovery.

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Bioinformatics
Data search, query and retrieval
Ontology and terminology
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Data Visualisation for Biology: a practical workshop on design, techniques and tools
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
30th Jan - 3rd Feb

This workshop will give insights and practical experience in data visualisation for exploring biological data.

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Course
Data visualisation

February 2017

2
EMBL-EBI: An Introduction to Sequence Searching
University of Cambridge - Downing Site, Cambridge,  CB2 3AR, United Kingdom
2nd Feb

An introduction on how to search EBI databases using sequence search tools.

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Course
Sequence search
Data search, query and retrieval
Data analysis
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Interactions & Pathways - IntAct
University of Cambridge - Downing Site, Cambridge,  CB2 3AR, United Kingdom
3rd Feb

This workshop will introduce open-source tools for creating, representing and analysing molecular interaction data.

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Course
Molecular interactions, pathways and networks
Protein interactions
Data visualisation
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EMBL-EBI: Introduction to Chemogenomics Resources
University of Cambridge - Downing Site, Cambridge,  CB2 3AR, United Kingdom
6th Feb

An introduction to the chemogenomics resources available from the EBI. The workshop will cover resources such as ChEMBL, SureChEMBL, UniChem and Opentargets.

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Course
Cheminformatics
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Ensembl Bite-Sized February 2017
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
8th Feb

Work with the Ensembl team to get to grips with the Ensembl browser and data.

First come, first served

Course
Bioinformatics
Genomics
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Metabolomics: molecules of life, an introduction
8th Feb

Join Reza Salek on an introductory tour of metabolomics. This webinar will help you understand what metabolomics is and how it can be used to inform biological research.

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Webinar
Metabolomics
Metabolic pathways
Metabolites
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EMBO Practical Course on Metabolomics Bioinformatics for Life Scientists
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
13th - 17th Feb

This course will provide an overview of key issues that affect metabolomics studies, handling datasets and procedures for the analysis of metabolomics data using bioinformatics tools.

Open application with selection

Course
Metabolomics
Metabolites
Biomarkers
Omics
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EMBL-EBI: Transcriptomics Data and Tools
University of Cambridge - Downing Site, Cambridge,  CB2 3AR, United Kingdom
14th Feb

This course aims at introducing biologists to tools for functional genomics.

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Course
Transcriptomics
Gene expression
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EMBL-EBI: Exploring genetic variation data
University of Cambridge - Downing Site, Cambridge,  CB2 3AR, United Kingdom
16th Feb

This workshop will give an introduction to exploring variation data by the use of the European Variation Archive (EVA), Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) and UniProt.

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Genomics
Genotype and phenotype
Genetic variation
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EMBL-EBI: Interactions & Pathways - Reactome
University of Cambridge - Downing Site, Cambridge,  CB2 3AR, United Kingdom
28th Feb

This workshop will introduce open-source tools for creating, representing and analysing molecular interaction data.

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Course
Molecular interactions, pathways and networks
Signaling pathways
Data visualisation

March 2017

7
Introduction to Omics data integration
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
7th - 10th Mar

This course will provide participants with biological examples of data integration, and the challenges that researchers face. The course will focus on the use of public data resources and open access tools for enabling integrated working, with an emphasis on data visualisation.

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Course
Omics
Data integration
Data visualisation
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Bioinformatics for discovery
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
16th - 17th Mar

An online master’s level short course aimed at providing discovery scientists from a range of fields (e.g. agri-foods, pharma and consumer goods) with the skills and knowledge required to apply bioinformatics techniques in their everyday work. The course starts with a 2-day face to face workshop, followed by a 6 month period of online study.

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Course
Drug discovery
Bioinformatics
Omics

April 2017

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Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing (April) 2017
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
3rd - 6th Apr

This course will provide an introduction to the technology, data analysis, tools and resources for next generation sequencing (NGS) data.

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Course
Genomics
Transcriptomics
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Advanced RNA-Seq and ChiP-Seq Data Analysis
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
24th - 27th Apr

The aim of this course is to familiarise the participants with advanced data analysis methodologies and provide hands-on training on the latest analytical approaches. Lectures will give insight into how biological knowledge can be generated from RNA-seq and ChIP-seq experiments and illustrate different ways of analyzing such data Practicals will consist of computer exercises that will enable the participants to apply statistical methods to the analysis of RNA-seq and ChIP-seq data under the guidance of the lecturers and teaching assistants.

Open application with selection

Course
Genomics
Gene expression
Functional genomics
Nucleic acids
Data analysis

May 2017

8
Computational Molecular Evolution
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
8th - 19th May

This hands-on computational course aims to provide early-career stage researchers with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to carry out molecular evolutionary analyses on sequence data.

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Course
Phylogenetics
Phylogenomics
Sequence analysis
Evolutionary biology
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Networks and Pathways
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
22nd - 26th May

This course will provide life scientists training on exploring and using protein interaction bioinformatics resources. The content examines the data repositories, resources and tools available to explore and analyse large datasets. The principles of biological network and pathway analysis will be introduced and explained using relevant case studies. Participants will also have the opportunity to either learn how to access public repositories via programmatic methods or spend time analysing their own data using the approaches covered in the course.

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Course
Molecular interactions, pathways and networks
Protein interactions
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Ensembl Bite-Sized May 2017
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
24th May

Work with the Ensembl team to get to grips with the Ensembl browser and data.

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Course
Bioinformatics
Genomics

June 2017

6
Bioinformatics for Principal Investigators
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
6th - 8th Jun

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

Open application with selection

Course
Data search, query and retrieval
Data management
Computational biology
6
Bioinformatics for core facility managers
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
6th - 8th Jun

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

Open application with selection

Course
Bioinformatics
Data management
12
Data resources and bioinformatics tools for immunologists
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
12th - 16th Jun

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

Open application with selection

Course
Immunology
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Cancer Genomics
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
19th - 23rd Jun

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

Open application with selection

Course
Genomics
Transcriptomics
Oncology
Gene expression
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Summer School in Bioinformatics
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
26th - 30th Jun

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

Open application with selection

Course
Data search, query and retrieval
Critical thinking
Sequence analysis

July 2017

3
Foundation skills for HPC in computational biomolecular research
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
3rd - 7th Jul

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

Open application with selection

Course
HPC
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In Silico Systems Biology
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
9th - 14th Jul

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

Open application with selection

Course
Systems biology
Modelling
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Proteomics Bioinformatics
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
16th - 21st Jul

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

Open application with selection

Course
Proteomics
Molecular interactions, pathways and networks
Mass spectrometry
NMR spectroscopy

September 2017

12
Bioinformatics for Principal Investigators
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
12th - 14th Sep

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

Open application with selection

Course
Data search, query and retrieval
Data management
Computational biology
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Ensembl Bite-Sized September 2017
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
20th Sep

Work with the Ensembl team to get to grips with the Ensembl browser and data.

First come, first served

Course
Genomics
Bioinformatics

October 2017

2
Metagenomics Bioinformatics
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
2nd - 6th Oct

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

Open application with selection

Course
Metagenomics
Sequence analysis
Function analysis
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Introduction to Next Generation Sequencing (October)
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
9th - 12th Oct

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

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Course
Genomics
Transcriptomics
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Structural Bioinformatics
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
23rd - 27th Oct

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

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Structural biology
30
Metabolomics
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
30th Oct - 3rd Nov

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

Open application with selection

Course
Metabolomics
Metabolites
Biomarkers
Omics

November 2017

6
Analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing Data
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 1 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
6th - 10th Nov

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

Open application with selection

Course
Phylogenetics
Phylogenomics
Sequence analysis
Evolutionary biology
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Plants and Plant Pathogens
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
13th - 17th Nov

Full details of this course are yet to be confirmed. Please register your interest.

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Course
Plants
Pathogens
Genomics
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Ensembl Bite-Sized November 2017
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) - Training Room 2 - Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge,  CB10 1SD, United Kingdom
29th Nov

Work with the Ensembl team to get to grips with the Ensembl browser and data.

First come, first served

Course
Genomics
Bioinformatics

Online courses

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ArrayExpress: Discover functional genomics data quickly and easily

ArrayExpress is a database of functional genomics data. This course will give you an overview of how these data are stored in ArrayExpress and will teach you how to effectively search and retrieve data from the ArrayExpress website . Course...

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ArrayExpress: Quick tour

This quick tour provides an overview of EMBL-EBI’s functional genomics database ArrayExpress. This course was updated in December 2015. An undergraduate-level understanding of biology is an advantage. You may wish to have a look at our Functional...

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Biocuration: An introduction

Claire O'Donovan, leader of the Protein Function Content team at EMBL-EBI, gives an introduction into biocuration and talks about what it is like to work as a biocurator and the skill sets you need. This webinar was recorded on 2 March 2016 and is...

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Bioinformatics for the terrified

This course will give you a broad overview of how bioinformatics can enable bench-based research. It is aimed at experimental researchers in the molecular life sciences who have little or no previous experience of using bioinformatics databases or...

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Biomacromolecular structures: An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources

Introduction to structural biology and related resources at EMBL-EBI.

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Biomedical data: Ethical, legal and social implications

This course explores the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of biomedical data sharing. The material will introduce the reasons why we want to share data, the benefits it can bring, and the challenges of doing so. It will present ideas...

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BioModels: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to EMBL-EBI’s resource of mathematical models of biological/biomedical systems: BioModels .

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BioSamples Database RDF: webinar

This webinar is presented by Marco Brandizi and covers the BioSamples database resource description framework (RDF). This video is best viewed using Google Chrome and in full screen mode.

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BioSamples: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the EBI's BioSamples data resource. Undergraduate-level understanding of biology would be an advantage.

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Cellular Microscopy Phenotype Ontology (CMPO): Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the Cellular Microscopy Phenotype Ontology (CMPO). It covers the scientific principles that led to the creation of this ontology and how it can be used.

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ChEBI: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to ChEBI, the EBI's Chemical Entities of Biological Interest database, which focuses on 'small' chemical compounds. For a more detailed walthrough of ChEBI, have a look at our ChEBI: the online...

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ChEBI: The online chemical dictionary for small molecules

Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) is a user-friendly online chemical dictionary that focuses on the nomenclature, structure, and biological properties of 'small' molecules that may be encountered by anyone working in (or merely with...

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ChEMBL walkthrough: webinar

Louisa Bellis presents this webinar on ChEMBL - a manually curated chemical database of bioactive molecules with drug-like properties. This webinar took place on 22nd May 2015. NB: These videos works best using Google Chrome and when viewed in full...

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ChEMBL: Exploring bioactive drug-like molecules

This course will show you the content and search facilities for the ChEMBL database . ChEMBL is a database of bioactive drug-like molecules, and contains 2D structures, calculated properties and associated bioactivities. Some basic understanding of...

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ChEMBL: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to ChEMBL, the EBI's chemogenomics resource. For a more detailed walthrough of ChEMBL, have a look at our ChEMBL: Exploring bioactive drug-like molecules tutorial.

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Complex Portal: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to EMBL-EBI's Complex Portal: a manually curated, encyclopedic resource of macromolecular complexes from a number of key model organisms.

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Complex Portal: webinar

Birgit Meldal gives an introduction to the Complex Portal . The Complex Portal provides manually curated summaries about macromolecular complexes, including lists of participants, function and property information as well as cross-references. This...

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Computational chemistry in drug discovery

Darren Green, Director of Computational Chemistry at GSK, presents a talk on using computational chemistry approaches for drug discovery. The talk explains how informatics can aid many steps in the discovery and development process, to elucidate...

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DGVa: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the DGVa, the EBI's Database of Genomic Variants archive.

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diXa data warehouse: Exploring data from toxicogenomics studies

The diXa data warehouse is a curated collection of toxicogenomics experiments, accessible through the diXa website . This course will show you how to use the diXa warehouse and what data is available.

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Drug repurposing

John Overington, Director of Bioinformatics at Stratified Medical, and former group leader at EMBL-EBI, presents a talk on the repurposing of drugs for novel therapeutic applications. The talk explores how computational approaches can be used to...

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Druggability and the druggable genome

Anna Gaulton presents this webinar on the druggable genome and the concept of druggability. She discusses why druggability is so important in drug discovery and what methods and databases you can used to determine the druggability of your targets...

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EBI Metagenomics portal: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to EBI Metagenomics - a free resource for archiving, analysing, visualising, discovering and comparing metagenomic and metatranscriptomic datasets. If you want to submit your metagenomics data to EBI...

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EBI Metagenomics portal: Submitting metagenomics data to the European Nucleotide Archive

This tutorial provides you with a step-by-step guide for submitting metagenomics data to the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) in order for it to be analysed by the EBI Metagenomics resource.

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EBI: Next Generation Sequencing Practical Course

Here you will find a collection of video lectures from the 'Hands on training in Next-Generation Sequencing' course that took place at EMBL-EBI on 12-14 March 2012, available for you to watch in your own time. The workshop provides an introduction...

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EGA: Quick tour

This Quick tour provides a brief introduction to the European Genome-phenome archive (EGA).

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EMBL-EBI resources: An introduction

This 30 minute webinar provides you with an introduction to the core data resources at EMBL-EBI (recorded 2nd February 2016). NB: This video works best using Google Chrome. See upcoming webinars from this series.

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EMBO Practical Course on Analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing Data

Here you will find a collection of materials including videos of lectures from the 'EMBO Practical Course on Analysis of High-Throughput Sequencing Data' that took place at EMBL-EBI on 23-29 October 2011. This course was aimed at advanced PhD...

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Ensembl browser webinar series (2016)

Between the 24th March and 5th May 2016, we held series of live Ensembl webinars which came together to provide a complete browser course. This course includes an introduction to Ensembl, what kind of data Ensembl has, and how to browse and export...

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Ensembl Genomes (non-chordates): Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to Ensembl Genomes , the non-chordate genome browser.

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Ensembl tools: webinar

Emily Perry from the Ensembl Outreach Team presents this webinar on Ensembl tools, including the ever-popular Variant Effect Predictor (VEP), BLAST/BLAT and BioMart. This webinar took place on 22nd April 2015. NB: This video works best using Google...

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Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP): webinar

Want easy analysis of your own variant calls? The Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP) allows you to annotate variants with the genes and regulatory features they hit and what effect they have on them. It can also tell you if your variant is known...

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Ensembl: Browsing chordate genomes

This course focuses on chordate (mostly vertebrate) genomes on the Ensembl website at www.ensembl.org. It provides a quick beginner's guide to the overall structure of the Ensembl genome browser.

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Ensembl: Filmed API workshop

Ensembl runs API workshops worldwide, and for the first time we make one available online. Here you will find a collection of video lectures from the 'Ensembl API workshop' that took place at EMBL-EBI 22nd-24th May 2013, using Ensembl version 71...

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Ensembl: Filmed browser workshop

UPDATE: The new browser webinar series is here. This new course consisted of live webinars over 7 weeks, which were recorded and the videos posted online, along with exercises to let you practice using Ensembl. The new course has replaced this one...

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Ensembl: Genomic features that regulate genes

This webinar was held on the 6th July 2016 and takes you through the Ensembl regulatory build, which is used to predict the location of promoters, enhancers and other regulatory features in the human and mouse genomes, using experimental data from...

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Ensembl: Quick tour

This course provides a very short introduction to the Ensembl website for browsing chordate genomes. This is a quick overview to the browser, designed to give you an idea of what is possible, and will not give you a full tutorial on how to do...

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Enzyme Portal: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the Enzyme Portal - a data resource that provides access to information from several enzyme-related databases, both at EMBL-EBI and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB).

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Europe PMC: Quick tour

This quick tour gives a brief introduction to Europe PMC , a free literature resource for biomedical and health researchers. Course updated in January 2016.

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European Nucleotide Archive (ENA): An introduction: webinar

In this webinar, Marc Rossello gives an introduction the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA). This webinar took place on 8 April 2015. NB: This video works best using Google Chrome and when viewed in full screen. Find out about upcoming webinars .

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European Nucleotide Archive: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the European Nucleotide Archive, the EBI's repository for nucleotide sequence data.

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European Nucleotide Archive: Using the primary nucleotide sequence resource

This course will show you how to search and retrieve nucleotide sequence data from the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA). The ENA provides sequence assembly details and biological annotation, and uses versioning to track sequence changes.

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Expression Atlas: Quick tour

This extended quick tour provides a brief introduction to the Expression Atlas (“Atlas”). Expression Atlas provides information on gene expression patterns under different biological conditions. An undergraduate-level understanding of biology is an...

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Functional genomics (I): Introduction and designing experiments

This is the first part of our functional genomics course. This course will give you an introduction to functional genomics. We will introduce you to different types of functional genomics studies and discuss best practices when designing your own...

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Functional genomics (II): Common technologies and data analysis methods

This is the second part of our functional genomics course. This course will introduce you to common technologies in functional genomics studies, including microarrays and next generation sequencing (NGS), with a special focus on RNA-sequencing (RNA-...

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Functional genomics (III): Submitting your data and functional genomics databases

This is the third and final part of our functional genomics course. In this course, we will look at why, when, where to submit your functional genomics data. We recommend that you look at Functional genomics (I): Introduction and designing...

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Functional genomics: An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources

This course will introduce the field of functional genomics and provide an overview of the major resources for this field at EMBL-EBI. Updated in August 2014. For a more in depth look at functional genomics, we have just launched three new courses (...

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Genomics resources: webinar

This 25 minute webinar from Dr Laura Emery provides you with an introduction to EMBL-EBI and the data resources available (recorded on 25th February 2015). The webinar focuses in particular on three core resources - Ensembl, ENA and the Metagenomics...

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Genomics: An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources

This course will introduce the field of genomics and provide an overview of the different resources at the EBI which are related to this field. The course is aimed at graduates in the life sciences or related subjects, with an interest in using...

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Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (ELSI): Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (Global Alliance), which was formed to help accelerate the potential of genomic medicine to advance human health. This Quick tour focuses on the Ethical,...

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GO: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the EBI's Gene Ontology resource. For information about gene ontology annotation, see the UniProt-GOA quick tour .

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IMPC: Using the mouse phenotyping portal

The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) portal allows you to search for phenotypes, disease models and knockout mouse strains for your gene of interest. This course will show you how to use the IMPC portal and what data is available.

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IntAct: Molecular interactions at EMBL-EBI

This course will show you what kind of information you can find in IntAct (one of the EBI's molecular interactions databases), how to access it, the different tools that can be used to access data and some practical examples on how to search and use...

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IntAct: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the EBI's molecular interactions database, IntAct.

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IntAct: The molecular interactions database at EMBL-EBI: webinar

This two-part webinar from Pablo Porras Millan provides you with an introduction to protein-protein interactions and the molecular interaction database IntAct (recorded on 30th September 2015). IntAct is a central, public repository where molecular...

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InterPro: Functional and structural analysis of protein sequences

InterPro is a classification database that provides predictive information about protein sequences. This course will show you what kind of information is available in InterPro, how to access it, and how to search the database..

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InterPro: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to InterPro, the EBI's database of protein families, domains and functional sites. For a more detailed walkthrough of InterPro have a look at our InterPro tutorial .

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Locus Reference Genomic (LRG) resource: webinar

This webinar provides you with an overview and demo of the Locus Reference Genomic (LRG) resource - a manually curated reference resource for the reporting of clinically relevant variants. NB: This video works best using Google Chrome and when...

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MetaboLights: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the EBI's metabolomics resource: MetaboLights .

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Metabolomics: An introduction

This course provides a basic introduction into the rapidly emerging field of metabolomics and its importance and applications.

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myChEMBL: webinar

George Papadatos takes you through myChEMBL - the ChEMBL virtual machine. This video is best viewed in full screen, using Google Chrome. See upcoming webinars from this series.

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Ontology Lookup Service (OLS)

The Ontology Lookup Service (OLS) provides access to over 150 public biomedical ontologies. You can use OLS to search and visualise ontologies, and an API is also provided for programmatic access. Ontologies provide standard terminology for...

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PDBe: Exploring a Protein Data Bank (PDB) entry

This course will show you how to explore the structural information in a PDB entry using the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) - EMBL-EBI's resource for the collection, organisation and dissemination of data on biological macromolecular structures...

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PDBe: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe), EMBL-EBI's resource for the collection, organisation and dissemination of data on biological macromolecular structures.

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PDBe: Searching for biological macromolecular structures

The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) is a free and easily accessible resource for biological macromolecular structures. We collect, organise and disseminate data in both the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and the Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB)...

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PDBe: Searching the Protein Data Bank

This course will show you how to search the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) - EMBL-EBI's resource for the collection, organisation and dissemination of data on biological macromolecular structures. The course contains the following mini-tutorials...

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PDBeChem: Searching for small molecules and small molecule fragments

PDBeChem allows you to search for chemical components (ligands, small molecules and monomers) that appear in PDB entries, and discover which protein structures bind a particular ligand. This course will show you how to use PDBeChem and what you can...

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PDBeFold: Searching for structural homologues of a protein

PDBeFold can be used to identify structural homologues in the PDB. PDBe's Secondary Structure Matching service (SSM) allows you to interactively compare, align and superimpose protein structures in 3D. This course will show you how to use PDBeFold...

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PDBePISA: Identifying and interpreting the likely biological assemblies of a protein structure

PDBePISA allows you to explore macromolecular (protein, DNA/RNA and ligand) interfaces and predict the quaternary structure of your protein. This course will show you how to use PDBePISA and what you can do with it. An undergraduate degree in a life...

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Phylogenetics: An introduction

This course provides a basic introduction to the field of phylogenetics, with an emphasis on how to read and interpret phylogenetic trees. An undergraduate-level understanding of biology would be an advantage.

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PRIDE and ProteomeXchange: webinar

Juan Antonio Vizcaino presents this webinar on PRIDE and ProteomeXchange. PRIDE is a resource that stores mass spectrometry-based protein expression data (including e.g. mass spectra, peptide and protein identifications, among other data types)...

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PRIDE: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the EMBL-EBI's PRoteomics IDEntifications database, PRIDE.

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Protein classification: An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources

This course will provide an introduction to protein classification and basic concepts, such as proteins families, domains and sequence features.

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Protein interactions and their importance

This course will provide an introduction to molecular interactions, their importance and the methodologies use to generate and capture interaction data.

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ProteomeXchange submissions via PRIDE

How to submit MS/MS data to ProteomeXchange via PRIDE. This course is aimed at proteomics researchers with data that they want to make available through public-domain databases of proteomics experiments.

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Proteomics: An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources

This course will provide an overview of proteomics. We will then introduce resources provided by the EBI related to proteomics.

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QuickGO - Gene ontology annotation

The Gene Ontology Annotation (GOA) project provides high-quality functional annotations to gene products, such as proteins, protein complexes and non-coding RNAs. Currently our database contains over 280 million annotations to 45 million distinct...

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Reactome: Exploring and analysing biological pathways

This course provides an overview to the Reactome pathway database web interface and the database content. For a short introduction to Reactome, please visit the Reactome quick tour .

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Reactome: Exploring biological pathways: webinar

This two-part webinar from Steve Jupe provides you with an introduction to Reactome and how you can use it to explore biological pathways (recorded on 22 June 2016). Part 1 gives an overview of what Reactome is and why it is important. Part 2...

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Reactome: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to Reactome, the biological pathway database.

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Rfam: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to Rfam, the EBI's database of RNA families.

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RNAcentral: Exploring non-coding RNA sequences

RNAcentral is a database of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) sequences that aggregates data from multiple specialised resources and provides a single entry point for accessing ncRNA sequences of all types from all organisms. This course provides a brief...

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RNAcentral: webinar

This webinar provides you with an overview and demo of RNAcentral - an international database of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) sequences that aggregates data from multiple specialised ncRNA resources. This webinar took place on 28th October 2015. NB: This...

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Structural volume data

This course provides a basic introduction of volume matching techniques in the field of structural bioinformatics. It explains the use of electron microscopy (EM) and electron tomography (ET) data in creating 3D volume maps of proteins, and the...

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SureChEMBL: Accessing chemical patent data: webinar

This two-part webinar from George Papadatos provides you with an introduction to the chemical patent database SureChEMBL (recorded on 11th March 2015). Part 1 gives an overview of what SureChEMBL is and why it is important. Part 2 provides a demo of...

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Text mining: Key concepts and applications

Jee-Hyub Kim and Senay Kafkas from the Literature Services team at EMBL-EBI present this talk on an introduction to text mining and its applications in service provision. The 1st part of this talk focuses on what text mining is and some of the...

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UniChem: EMBL-EBI’s mapping tool for small molecule database identifiers: webinar

Jon Chambers presents this webinar on UniChem . UniChem is a very simple, large-scale non-redundant database of pointers between chemical structures and EMBL-EBI chemistry resources (recorded on 13th May 2015). NB: This video works best using Google...

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UniChem: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to UniChem , a compound identifier mapping service. It covers the scientific principles behind the tool, and outlines the use of UniChem and UniChem 'Connectivity Search' to directly locate identical and...

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UniProt-GOA: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to UniProt-GOA, the Gene Ontology Annotation resource. For information about the Gene Ontology, see the GO quick tour .

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UniProt: Exploring protein sequence and functional information

This course is a guide to the UniProt resource, including what kinds of information it provides and how to access the data using the UniProt website. Some knowledge of biology and proteins is required. Some bioinformatics knowledge is useful but not...

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UniProt: Exploring protein sequence and functional information - webinar

In the first webinar , Sangya Pundir shows us how we can use UniProt to explore protein sequence and functional information. The second webinar showcases the latests updates to the UniProt website (webinar recorded on 9th Dec 2015). The third...

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UniProt: Programmatic access to UniProtKB: webinar

Klemens Pichler presents this webinar on accessing UniProtKB programmatically. This webinar was recorded on 3rd June 2015. This video is best viewed in full screen using Google Chrome. See upcoming webinars .

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UniProt: Quick tour

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt). A full tutorial of UniProt can be found here .

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User experience design

This course introduces user experience design (UXD) in the context of bioinformatics tools and service development. It provides an overview of basic concepts and links to external resources on UXD where you can learn more.

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Using sequence similarity searching tools at EMBL-EBI: webinar

This webinar focuses on how to use tools like BLAST and PSI-Search to find homologous sequences in EMBL-EBI databases, including tips on which tool and database to use, input formats, how to change parameters and how to interpret the results pages...