Bioinformatics Road Show
April 28-29, 2009 at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Registration deadline: April 17, 2009
This workshop is open to researchers at this institution. Researchers at other institutions who desire to attend the workshop should contact the local liaison prior to registering.
This two-day workshop is designed to teach researchers computational methods for analyzing families of sequences. The mathematical and biological basis for several multiple sequence alignment programs, (ClustalW, M-Coffee, Probcons) and the inherent limitations of those approach on different classes of sequences will be discussed. Participants will also be introduced to computational methods used to discover patterns and motifs among groups of related sequences. Lecture will be accompanied by hands-on computer laboratories that will give participants the opportunity to try these methods on model families as well as their own sequence data.
