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J-Express Microarray Analysis Course (9 October - 11 October, 2007)

The aim of the course is to educate users in performing high-level analysis of ready normalized gene expression data, and interpretation of the results. An overview of the whole analysis process as well as planning of the experiment will be covered during the course, but the focus of the course program will be on analysing and interpreting ready preprocessed gene expression data in terms of their annotations using J-Express.

The course will be held completely in a computer lab, aiming for as much hands on analysis as possible, with short introductions and discussions at regular intervals. Computers will have the J-Express software readily installed. You may bring your own laptop if you already are using J-Express regularly, and your laptop has sufficient hardware capabilites (most important memory).

Ensembl workshop -CBU, Bergen - Sept. 03-06

Ensembl Workshop September 2007 in Bergen

Registration closed. For late registration send mail to contact@bioinfo.no

The Computational Biology Unit is organizing a 4-days course, which will cover EnsEMBL Browser, API (core and compara), and BioMart. The course will consist of lectures and hands-on practices both for wet-lab biologists and bioinformatics programmers. Participants are encouraged to bring problems/questions about their research to try to tackle these during the workshop using Ensembl. Basic knowledge of programming in Perl is expected for days 2&3 (API), as well as for day 4 (BioMart). See program below. Also, the workshop will focus on chordates, not lower animals none of plants or prokaryotes.

Time: Sep. 3rd - 6th, 2007
Place: Bergen (Building will be announced later)
Operating system: windows (day 1), linux (days 2 to 4)

Three of the four recently funded e-Sciences projects are within systems biology

The eVITA e-Science program (Research Council of Norway) recently granted each of four large interdisciplinary projects approximately 20 million NOK for five years. One of these projects entitled "eSysbio - an e-science environment for systems biology" is headed by Jeremy Cook (Parallab, BCCS). The project brings together three units within the Bergen Center for Computational Science (BCCS) with competences in bioinformatics (CBU), high-performance computing (Parallab) and mathematics (CMU). The main goal of the project is to build a virtual workspace for performing systems biology research, and is expected to play an important role for the growing system biology research community in Norway.

The other two systems biology projects funded are "eNEURO - modelling, simulation, visualization and databasing of the nervous system" and "Bridging the gap: disclosure, understanding and exploitation of the genotype-phenotype mapping", both at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

29 June 2007

Boris Lenhard (CBU/Sars) awarded YFF funding

Boris Lenhard at the Computational Biology Unit (CBU), part of Bergen Center for Computational Science, and Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology has been awarded YFF (Yngre fremragende forskere) funding through the Research Council of Norway for the project "Transcriptome regulation in development, disease and cancer."

The purpose of the YFF-program is to provide young talented researchers with a level of research funding that will allow them to reach an international top level. Lenhard was one of 20 to be funded among 179 applicants across all fields of research in Norway.

28 June 2007

MCB course: Molecular Dynamics simulations for beginners
2007, May 21-25

The MCB research school and CBU are organizing a 5-days course in molecular dynamics simulations. The course will consist of lectures and hands-on practicals and is meant for beginners.

Participants are expected to have basic knowledge of protein and DNA structure. The first day will be devoted to a pre-course meant to provide the necessary background knowledge to understand the lectures and go through the practicals.

Operating system: linux
Number of participants: 20 max.
Place: HiB, Thormohlensgt 55, Bergen

Service scientist position at CBU

Advanced Microarray Analysis Course

Course in Basic Sequence Analysis (27 November - 1 December, 2006)

We are happy to announce a course in basic sequence analysis. The course is targeted primarily to biologists that have little or no previous bioinformatics experience.

Lecturers will be Cedric Notredame (Structural and Genetic Information, C.N.R.S, Marseille), and Boris Lenhard, Rein Aasland and Pål Puntervoll (CBU).

Bioinformatics and proteomics seminar, Bergen

Course in the statistical and programing language R (November 13-16, 2006)

The aim is to introduce R as a powerful tool for analyzing any type of data.

The course will consist of lectures together with practicals and exercices.

The lecturer will be Frederic Guyon, invited from the Denis-Diderot University in Paris. The practical sessions will be jointly organized by Frederic Guyon and staff at CBU (Trond Bø, David Fredman, Eric Hajjar) and NTNU (Endre Anderssen).

Bioinformatics cookbook

The service group at CBU has started to build a collection of bioinformatics tutorials or recipes, that hopefully will be useful to both bioinformaticians and less experienced biologists.

CBU scientist one of primary authors of Nature Genetics paper on mammalian promoter architecture and evolution

We are very happy to announce the publication of the following paper:

CBUers awarded paper of the year prize at the Gade Institute

The prize for the best paper 2005 at the Gade Institute, University of Bergen was awarded the paper:

New CBU group

Web Services course

CBU is giving an introductory course in the use of Web Services within bioinformatics (19-21 of April). Use of selected bioinformatic Web Services will be demonstrated and attendees will learn how to set up their own Web Services.