CE602 Entry to the Genome World: Genome Browsers

Level: Beginning+
Prerequisite: None
Cost: $315 (nonmember, $560)
Attendance Maximum: 20

Instructor(s): Medha Bhagwat, Informationist and Bioinformatics Specialist, NIH Library, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Offered: Wednesday, May 18, 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

This course will describe how to use different publicly available genome browsers such as those from University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), and European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). Used to view the assembly of the complete human genome, these browsers are valuable tools to identify and localize genes and to obtain information about them. This course will demonstrate how to view different human genome maps/tracks and make best use of them. The class will be taught through a combination of lecture, demonstration, discussion, and hands-on exercises, including an introduction describing how a genome sequence is assembled and annotated and a demonstration using one example or problem. Participants will be provided another example or problem to practice in the hands-on session. The course is relevant to participants serving molecular researchers at academic institutions, research centers, hospitals, and industry (e.g., biopharmaceutical/biotechnology).

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