The Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland is hosting a 4-day workshop that will provide detailed instruction in the areas of genome sequencing, annotation, and analysis.
The course is designed to be modular in nature so that attendees can choose to attend only the portions of the workshop that they are interested in.
Tentative Schedule - subject to change at this point, will be finalized at least one month prior to the start of the workshop
Genome Sequencing
Prokaryotic Gene Finding and Curation
Eukaryotic Gene Finding and Curation
Protein Functional Annotation (Part 1)
Gene Ontology system
Protein Functional Annotation (Part 2)
Hands-On manual curation with Manatee
Metagenomics (Part 1)
Metagenomics (Part 2)
Data structures and Pipelines
The following courses are scheduled:
The course will be held on the University of Maryland Baltimore campus in the BioParkII building at 801 W. Baltimore St. Baltimore, MD 21201. A computer will be provided for your use during the workshop.
Can be found here:
http://www.igs.umaryland.edu/about_directions.php
Parking is available for $9.00 per day in a garage at the corner of W. Baltimore and Poppleton, this is about 1 block from our building.
The closest airport is Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI). Other airports in the region (1 - 1.5 hours away) are Dulles and Reagan National.
Baltimore is served by Amtrak and MARC train service.
Follow this link to find information on nearby hotels that offer discounted rates for those visiting the University of Maryland, you must mention that you are visiting the University of Maryland to get the discounted rate:
http://www.fincsvc.umaryland.edu/travel/hotels.cfm
The workshop will run from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM each day, with a one hour break for lunch. There are local restaurants where you can get lunch for around $10.00.
Registration is easy - simply click here and fill out the form.
Please send any questions to Michelle (mgiglio AT som.umaryland.edu)