Ensembl-EBI Browser and Toolkit workshop

Workshop Details

Date: September 7, 2010 or September 8, 2010
Location: Downtown Toronto, ON
Lead Faculty: Xosé Fernández from EBI
Registration Fee: Low Fee of $50 + HST

First-come, First-served Application – Apply now!
(As of August 16: 14 spots left for Sept. 7 and 12 spots left for Sept. 8)

Target Audience
This workshop is geared towards biologists and researchers. This 1-day browser and toolkit workshop offers participants the possibility of gaining lots of hands-on experience in the use of the Ensembl genome browser, but also provides them with the necessary background information.

Prerequisite: Your own laptop computer. Minimum requirements: Wireless internet connection and an Internet Browser. If you do not have access to your own computer, you may loan one from the CBW. Please contact course_info@bioinformatics.ca for more information.

Course Content
The workshop consists of a series of modules, listed below. Most modules consist of a presentation, followed by the opportunity to do exercises. Participants are encouraged to bring problems/questions about their research and we will try to tackle these during the workshop using Ensembl.


First-come, First-served Application – Apply now now as space is limited to 30 participants.

Day 1

• Introduction to Ensembl
• Guided tour of the most important pages of the Ensembl website
• Evaluating genes and transcripts: how are Ensembl gene and transcripts predictions made?
• Variations: SNPs, haplotypes, linkage disequilibrium
• Data mining with BioMart: retrieving datasets using the data mining tool BioMart