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Sessions will run from 9:00am-5:00pm with breakfast at 8:00am and lunch at 12:15pm.

 

All sessions and meals will take place in the Lake Shore Ballroom East at the Wyndham Chicago Hotel.

 

Monday, April 26, 2010 Topics:

 

            *  ArrayExpress: public database of transcriptomics data

            *  Gene Expression Atlas: a semantically enriched database of meta-analysis based summary statistics

                        which serves queries for condition-specific gene expression patterns

            *  Reactome: a curated pathway database

 

 

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 Topics:

 

            *  Introduction to Ensembl : origin, goals and organization

            *  Data mining with BioMart: retrieving datasets

            *  Comparative genomics and proteomics:

                        orthologues, protein families, whole genome alignments and syntenic regions

            *  Variations: SNP (Single nucleotide polymorphisms) in Ensembl, comparison of strains (mouse), breeds (dogs),

                        individuals (humans) using the browser and BioMart

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                       

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