CRC-CGF

The course has now been run and enjoyed by all. In addition to the twenty-four course participants, many local and interstate students attended the morning sessions and were most welcome. All up we averaged about sixty or more in attendance on each morning. Thank you to all the lecturers and audience who helped to make it a success.

We anticipate running this course again at a similar time in 2003.

What was the course all about - just a reminder!

The course examined the background, concepts and techniques for effective use of genetic, protein and biological databases. The practical sessions provided examples and hands-on experience for exploiting these databases. The lectures and tutorials were presented by academic staff from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, the Howard Florey Institute and the University of Melbourne. The practical element of the course was limited to 24 participants.

The topics covered in the course included:

Searching: Sequence Databases
Protein Sequencing Alignment
Protein Folding Motifs
Bioproteomics
Functional Genomics
Future Directions for Bioinformatics

Sponsors Thanks to the following

The Biotechnology Education and Training Programme
The CRC for Cellular Growth Factors
The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
The Howard Florey Institute for Experimental Physiology and Medicine
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research
Cytopia
Applied Biosystems

Course Presentations

Here are the fourteen presentations given during the morning sessions, together with the notes for each of the practical sessions. The files are in PDF format to allow for easy printing. An online version of each presentation is also available. Notes for the practical classes are presented as well. We are grateful to each of the lecturers for their permission to distribute these files.
 

Presentations	PDF	Web slide show
Paul Pallaghy (University of Melbourne):    Sequence Alignment	31 slides, 267 kb	View
Robert Flegg (VBC):    Biological Databases	37 slides,  1377 kb	View
Robert Flegg (VBC):    Database Searching	39 slides, 193 kb	View
Keith Satterley (WEHI):    Finding Genes	103 slides, 2231 kb	View
Terry Speed (WEHI):    Multiple Alignment, Phylogenetic Trees	41 slides, 105 kb	View
Terry Speed (WEHI):    Motifs, Profiles and Hidden Markov Models	40 slides,  1271 kb	View
Tom Garrett (WEHI):    Proteins in 3D	28 slides, 1764 kb	View
Nathan Hall (LICR):    Molecular Modelling	27 slides, 1435 kb	View
Herbert Treutlein (Cytopia):    Drug Design & Virtual Screening	30 slides, 1047 kb	View
Sue Forrest (AGRF):    Genomics	42 slides, 5161 kb	View
Tony Burgess (LICR):    Beyond the Genome	58 slides, 1296 kb
Richard Simpson (LICR):    Proteomics	37 slides, 3726 kb
Jane Armes (University of Melbourne):    Microarrays - An Experimental Scientist's View	25 slides, 9300 kb	View
Terry Speed (WEHI):    Microarrays - A Statistical Analysis	55 slides, 3776 kb	View
Practical Sessions
Alignment, Database Searching, SRS/OMIM	Prac notes.
Multiple Alignment, motif searching, tree building, finding genes	Prac notes.
Molecular Modelling and Rasmol	Prac notes.