Training

Sydney Bioinformatics offers training programs in various aspects of bioinformatics including phylogenetics, microarray analysis, and proteomic bioinformatics. These programs are specifically aimed at postgraduate students and research staff in the life sciences who wish to learn basic skills in bioinformatics.

There will be introductory courses on
May 18 2009, University of Sydney - CLOSED
July 2 2009, University of Melbourne
July 16 2009, University of Queensland

There will be an advanced course on
June 1 2009, University of Sydney run by Dr Jean Yang from the Department of Mathematics, University of Sydney - CLOSED

The Introduction workshop will be utilizing the software Chipster which is available at Sydney Bioinformatics. We will be covering the basics regarding to how to normalize data, clustering, statistics, pathway analysis, GEO information as it pertains to the software Chipster. This package works with affymetrix, agilent and illumine datasets.Chipster can be used after the workshop by those individuals whose department has a BioManager subscription. Chipster is a front end to the freely available BioConductor package.
The Advanced course will use other freely available packages.
Workshop are limited to 20 participants in NSW/QLD and 14 in Victoria. Payment of registration fee will confirm your place in the workshop.

Registration cost: $270 for University of Sydney staff/student (Conditions apply*), $297 for other academic staff and students.

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The Next course will be held on September 28 and 29, 2009 at the University of Sydney.

We will begin by motivating phylogenetic analysis and introducing the key concepts of multiple sequence alignment. We will then cover distance based methods and parsimony which are ideal for moderate to large data sets and then consider maximum likelihood. ML is by far the most powerful and most computationally demanding approach and we will go into it in some depth. We will investigate some different evolutionary models on the analysis and how to choose among them, finally we will consider Bayesian statistics and other methods of robustness.
Packages covered will include C-View, Clustal, MAFT, T-Coffee, MUSCLE, PHLIP, PAUP, MPHML, MacCLADE, TREEVIEW

Registration cost: $540 (University of Sydney journal transfer), $594 (Other academics)
Morning/Afternoon Tea and Lunch is provided.

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This three day workshop will cover the following areas:

• database searching
• pairwise and multiple sequence alignment
• motif detection and analysis
• protein structure and function
• RNA modeling
• phylogenetics
• gene detection
• PCR primer design
• restriction mapping and repetitive sequence identification
• Basic Microarray analysis (theory only)

The next courses will be held on

May 19-21, 2009, University of Sydney - CLOSED
June 29-July 1, University of Melbourne
July 13-15, 2009, University of Queensland

Depending on interest there may be time to cover basic microarray analysis or sequence assembly. The course is designed for postgraduate students, technicians and researchers who wish to gain a hands-on understanding of the applications of bioinformatics programs suitable to their research. For the most part, this workshop will be using the interface BioManager. Familiarity of this interface is not required prior to the workshop. Workshop time will be dedicated to the participants own problems and areas of interest. Course is limited to 20 people in Sydney and Brisbane and 14 in Melbourne

Registration cost: $810 for University of Sydney staff/students (Conditions apply*), $891 for other academics. For Melbourne workshop, discounts apply for a second person from the same laboratory willing to share a computer. Please contact us Education for details.

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This workshop is specifically designed for life science researchers who are interested in or currently conducting proteomic experiments. It will cover basic bioinformatics theory and online resources for the identification and characterization of proteins from MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. The workshop will include a hands-on tutorial session for practical instruction in techniques of protein identification and characterization.

The next course will be on Wednesday August 26 2009. Registration is now open for these courses.
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Registration cost: $270 for University of Sydney staff/student (Conditions apply*), $297 for other academic staff and students.

ANGIS runs regular courses throughout the year covering the main bioinformatic areas. Courses are held mostly in the capital cities on the east coast. In the event that there are several registrants from the same department interested in attending or people will be traveling from an internal or interstate centre, the cost of attending a course can be high.

To help meet this need and ANGIS can create and run a course specifically for your department, centre of school. The course can be a modification of the above courses, or a direct transcript of the standard ANGIS course. The course can also be modified to minimize the areas that are not relevant to the group as a whole so that a three day course can be reduced to a 2 day course.

The institute handles (and pays for, where appropriate) lecture and computer suite hire costs, and all expenses incurred by the ANGIS representative to attend plus a set daily fee. The main advantage of this system is that the course can be held at a time that is suitable for the institute, more people can attend and irrelevant topics are eliminated.

There is a flat fee of $1500 per day of workshop or $900 for half-day plus all expenses* Limit: 20 participants only. All must be from the requesting Department/Company/Division.
If you wish to be enquire about an in-house course please contact Education
*(travel, accommodation, daily allowance of $60) where applicable for the trainer to come from Sydney. and handout copying (neg.)