July, 2007

The Institute of Bioinformatics (IOB) is pleased to announce the 2007 summer school on "basic bioinformatic tools and applications". The targeted audience of this summer school is faculty members, postdoctoral research fellows and senior graduate students working in the field of biological sciences with an interest in learning bioinformatics or in the computational/mathematical sciences with an interest in biological applications. This seven-day program will focus on applications of some of the most basic bioinformatics tools. Each student will have a workstation to work with to do hands-on work during
and after the lectures. The summer program will consist of two components: (a) pre-course training, and (b) a five-session short course.

Specific topics of this summer course include

Pre-course training (1 day)

Day 1 morning: introduction to using computers in the computer lab (Dave Brown)

Day 1 afternoon: Solving biological problems using computational science (Ying
Xu)

Five-session short course (5 days)

Day 2: protein function prediction (Jessie Kissinger)

Day 3: protein structure prediction (Ying Xu or Juntao Guo)

Day 4: prediction of cis-regulatory motifs (Zhengchnag Su)

Day 5: Perl for biologists (Fenglou Mao)

Day 6: Building a simple database using MySQL (Fenglou Mao).

Schedule for the pre-course training: 10:00am -12:00pm, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
July 6, 2007

Short course schedule: 9:00am - 13:00 pm, July 9 - 13, 2007

Location: C-128, Life Sciences Building, except 7/06/07 location B118

A registration site has been set up at http://www.bioinformatics.uga.edu/registration2007.php. Because of the limited number of seats and computers in the lecture room, we will be able to register only 30 students. The registration will be open on April 6, 2007 and will be closed within a week. If we have more people registered than 30, we will use the following rules to select students: (a) priorities will be given first to faculty members, then postdocs and then graduate students; and (b) within each priority category, we will follow the rule "first-in, first-served". All lecture slides will be downloadable at http://www.bioinformatics.uga.edu/iob-summer-school/slides2007 (passowrd protected) for accepted students after July 3, 2007.