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.

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

If you wish to be notified ahead of the general mailout please email your interest to education@sydneybioinformatics.org

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. This workshop will make heavy use of the BioManager interface, but familiarity with this interface is not required prior to the workshop.

Cost: $720 (+$72 GST) per person.

Howard Florey Institute, Melbourne June 18-20.Melbourne Information Flyer
Melbourne Registration 3 Day Form
University of Queensland, Brisbane, July 2-4


To be placed on the early notification list please email your details and the state of interest to Dr Sonia Cattley (9036 3306, fax: 9036 3234).

This workshop contains all the components of the 3 day course listed above with an entire day dedicated to working through their own area of interest. Participants are encouraged to bring with them their data to analyse using the programs covered in the workshop.

Sydney Bioinformatics, University of Sydney, May 26-29

Cost is $960 +$96 GST

To be placed on the early notification list please email your details and the state of interest to Dr Sonia Cattley (9036 3306, fax: 9036 3234).

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 in 2009. Please contact Dr Sonia Cattley to be placed on the early notification list.

Direct any questions to Dr Sonia Cattley Additional courses will be held later on this year

Microarray Information Flyer
Microarray Registration form

A Database searching workshop is geared towards new Honours, Masters and PhD students who will be accessing the different DNA and/or protein databases. This course will cover text searching, the difference between the database s (GenBank, SWISS-PROT/UniProt, PDB) and how to search against a sequence (BLAST). Interpretation of the results will also be covered.

Courses will be held in early 2009


Costs will be $240 +$24 GST.

The Next course will be held on 18-19 November 2008 taught by Dr Michael Charleston School of IT, 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

For an application form or more information please email Education or fill out the following form
Database Registration form-Phylogenetics
Database Phylogenetics flyer

Costs will be $480 +$48 GST (GST only for non-USyd JT payment). Corporate registration on application.

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.)