Multiple Sequence Alignment and Analysis with Jalview -- Tutorial and Hackathon

Date:

  Monday 21 January 2013

Application deadline: 

Thursday 10 January 2013

Contact: 

Alison Barker

Registration closed

Overview

A two day workshop to introduce all aspects of the widely used Jalview sequence analysis workbench, including hands-on tutorials, seminars, a Jalview user clinic, and a hackathon for developers interested in extending Jalview for their own needs.

Jalview is a powerful tool for the creation, visualisation and analysis of protein and nucleic acid sequences that is widely used in teaching and research. This course covers all aspects of Jalview’s use. In the first day, hands on tutorials and lectures are provided to introduce Jalview’s capabilities, and explore the sequence alignment, annotation, analysis and structure visualization functions Jalview provides. The second day covers advanced topics, and provides an opportunity for users and bioinformatics software developers to work alongside the Jalview team to analyse their own data, configure and deploy their own Java Bioinformatics Analysis Server (JABAWS), or extend and adapt Jalview for their own needs.

Is it right for me?

The course is suitable for anyone who needs to create, manipulate, annotate and publish nucleotide or protein sequence alignments, and use them to explore biological function. There will be introductory material for people with little or no experience in biological sequence analysis, but the course is also an opportunity for people with more extensive bioinformatics knowledge to gain a deeper understanding of Jalview.

The hackathon provides an opportunity for developers wishing to work on Jalview or JABAWS for their own projects to meet and work together to extend Jalview and JABAWS’ capabilities.

Materials for this course can now be found here:

Additional information

This course will take place in the EMBL-EBI IT Training room which has 35 computers set up with the relevant disk images required for this course.

Accommodation

PLEASE NOTE: Registrants must book their own travel and accommodation.
We would recommend that you book your accommodation at any of the following locations:

Wellcome Trust Conference Centre

Red Lion Hinxton

Red Lion Whittlesford

Information regarding travelling to the EBI can be found here: A free shuttle bus will be arranged for registrants staying off-campus in the Whittlesford or Duxford area.

Programme

Time Topic
Day 1 - Monday 21 January 2013
08:30-09:00 Arrival and Registration
09:00-09:10 Welcome
09:10-10:30 Hands on: Introduction to Jalview
10:30-11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
11:00-12:30 Hands on: Introduction to Jalview continued
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Multiple sequence alignment and analysis
14:30-15:00 Hands on: Alignment and analysis with Jalview
15:00-15:30 Coffee/Tea Break
15:30-16:50 Hands on: Alignment and analysis with Jalview continued
16:50-17:00 Day 1 Wrap-up
17:00 Departure to accommodation
18:30 Meet for evening dinner Red Lion Hinxton. (5 minute walk from Campus)  Please arrive in time to eat at 19:00
Day 2 - Tuesday 22nd January 2013
09:00-10:30 Advanced Jalview and Jalview Hackathon
10:30-11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
11:00-12:30 Advanced Jalview and Jalview Hackathon continued
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Jalview Clinic and Jalview Hackathon
15:00-15:30 Coffee/Tea Break
15:30-15:50 Jalview Clinic and Jalview Hackathon continued
15:50-16:15 Wrap-up
16:15 Departure