Wellcome Genome Campus Call for Applications: Working with Protozoan Parasite Database Resources (Virtual)
The Wellcome Genome Campus is organizing a week-long virtual course, from October 5 – 9, 2020, called “Working with Protozoan Parasite Database Resources“. It aims to provide experimental biologists working on protozoan parasites with hands-on experience in genomic-scale data analysis; including genome browsers and comparison tools, primary data analysis, methods for data integration and resources for sophisticated data mining (including the VEuPathDB search strategy system).
Examples and exercises will be drawn primarily from the VEuPathDB.org and GeneDB.org resources focusing on protozoan parasites including Apicomplexa (ie. Plasmodium, Toxoplasma & Cryptosporidium) and Kinetoplastida (ie. Trypanosoma & Leishmania). Applicants working on any organism included in these resources will benefit.
The intensive programme will combine hands-on exercises with lectures and discussions on genomics and bioinformatics techniques, along with seminars from distinguished guest speakers.
The programme will include lecture and practical computational sessions covering the following topics:
- Visualisation of sequence features and next-generation sequencing data using the Artemis genome browser and annotation tool
- Genome browsing and comparative genomics (ACT and JBrowse/GBrowse)
- Formulating complex biological queries in computationally accessible form
- Web-based resources including the GeneDB.org and VEuPathDB.org family of databases
- Integrating functional genomics data (RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, ChIP-chip, microarrays, proteomics, etc) with genome sequence data
- Theoretical aspects of genome re-sequencing
- Querying genetic diversity on a genome-wide scale
- Metabolic pathways and pathway and GO enrichment analysis
- Working with next-generation sequence data (mapping, variant calling, RNA-Seq etc) using both command-line and web-based (Galaxy) methods
- Introduction to community curation tools
Read more here.
Application deadline TBD, 2020.
