Course Announcements
Pomicter, Carolyn (NHGRI)
courses occur throughout the year. We will post announcements about the
courses
to this mailing list as they become available.
The following courses are offered this summer and fall:
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Nucleic Acid and Protein Sequence Analysis
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
August 1-6, 1999
Application Deadline: June 9, 1999
Instructors:
Gary Churchill, Cornell University
Michael Gribskov, SDSC
Hugh Nicholas, Jr., PSC
David Deerfield, PSC
Alexander Ropelewski, PSC
Web Site: http://www.psc.edu/biomed/biomed.html
This intense five-day workshop will teach the basics of sequence analysis,
including remote supercomputing, inferring structures and functions using
internet resources, database searching and pairwise sequence alignment,
multiple
sequence alignments, pattern identification, inverse structure prediction, and
visualization of macromolecular structures. Special emphasis will be placed on
parameter selection, and the mathematical and statistical properties of the
algorithms and methods presented. Information will also be presented on the
latest pattern identification techniques including hidden Markov models,
advanced position-specific weight matrix techniques, and Bayesan estimation.
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Positional Cloning: Contig to Candidate Gene
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Long Island, New York
October 13-26, 1999
Application Deadline: July 15, 1999
Instructors:
Howard Jacob, Medical College of Wisconsin
Gary Silverman, Harvard Medical School
Forrest Spencer, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
WEB SITE: http://www.cshl.org/meetings
This laboratory-based course is designed for investigators using genetic and
physical mapping tools or functional assays to isolate genes of interest.
Emphasis is placed on those procedures used to isolate a candidate gene
after it
has been localized genetically. The laboratory-based component of the
course is
supplemented with lectures by invited speakers who are prominent investigators
who utilize many of the procedures taught in the course.
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Computational Genomics
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Long Island, New York
November 4-9, 1999
Application Deadline: July 15, 1999
Instructors:
William Pearson, University of Virginia
Randall Smith, Smith-Kline Beecham Pharmaceuticals
WEB SITE: http://www.cshl.org/meetings
Beyond BLAST and FASTA--This course presents a comprehensive overview of the
theory and practice of computational methods for gene identification and
characterization from DNA sequence data. The course focuses on approaches to
extracting the maximum amount of information from protein and DNA sequence
similarity through sequence database searches, statistical analysis and
multiple
sequence alignment.
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