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ELIXIR node event Bioinformatics resources for protein biology

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Date: 26 - 28 February 2019

Are you aware of the wide range of protein data resources that can easily be accessed and explored to enhance your research? Do you want to know more about the sequence of your protein and its functions? Wondered whether a structure of your protein exists and how to explore it? Want to know more about the potential complexes and reaction pathways your protein of interest is involved in, giving you a better overview of its biological context?

This three day course will introduce you to data resources and tools developed by EMBL-EBI that can help you in your protein studies. Each day will focus on a particular protein topic, with the aim of helping you get more from your data and also to explore publically-available data that can further support your research. On the last day you will have the opportunity to either explore the data resources presented in the course further, tackling a biologically relevant problem, or to learn how to access some of the EMBL-EBI resources and tools programmatically.

Course topics:

  • Day 1: Where can I find protein sequence, classification and comparison information?
  • Day 2: How do I choose a “good” protein structure and what can I learn from it?
  • Day 3: What interactions, complexes and pathways is my protein involved in?

Contact: Marina Pujol - [email protected]

Keywords: UniProt: The Universal Protein Resource, InterPro, Pfam, HMMER - protein homology search, PDBeFold, IntAct Molecular Interaction Database, Complex Portal, Reactome pathways database, Proteins (proteins), Protein sequence, Protein classification, Protein structure, Protein-protein interaction

Venue: European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton

Region: Cambridge

Country: United Kingdom

Postcode: CB10 1SD

Organizer: European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

Host institutions: European Bioinformatics Institute

Target audience: This course is aimed at anyone interested in finding out more about protein biology. No prior experience of bioinformatics is required, but participants should have an undergraduate level understanding of biology. For those who wish to attend the session on programmatic access a prior knowledge of coding/programming would be of benefit. For an introduction to the concept of web services and how you can use them to access the tools and data available at EMBL-EBI please watch our webinar.

Capacity: 30

Event types:

  • Workshops and courses

Scientific topics: Proteins

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