The NorFa Nordic Bioinformatics Network announces

Advanced NBN-EBI course

‘Databases in Bioinformatics’

European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK

October 4-5 2002

An in-depth course on the EBI databases for NBN Ph.D. students and postdocs.

Preliminary program

October 4

Midori Harris: The Gene Ontology Database

Helen Parkinson: Annotation and uses of Ontologies and the database of array express

Arek Kasprzyk and Arne Stabenau: The Ensembl Database

October 5

Johan Rung: The EBI Microarray Database

Irene Nooren: Protein-Protein interactions

Speaker from EMBL database coordination group: EMBL Databases

Students are expected to arrive October 3 and depart October 6.

NBN will cover board in double rooms plus a standardized travel bursary that will be calculated based on the cheapest available flights from the different countries. The attendance is limited to 40 students.

Please note: The deadline for applications has passed.

For information, please contact Gunnar von Heijne (gunnar@dbb.su.se)