Workshop on Bioinformatics: Tools in Biosequence analysis and biocomputing

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Workshop on Bioinformatics Tools in Biosequence
analysis and biocomputing

• Venue Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Noida
• 8th-10th September, 2005

Organised by Bioinformatics Division
Amity Institute of Biotechnology
Sector-125, Noida

In collaboration with
Mascon Life Sciences
Vasant Vihar, New Delhi
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• About the Workshop
• Bioinformatics applies principles of
  information sciences and technologies to make the
  vast, diverse, and complex life sciences data
  more understandable and useful. It deals with
  research, development, or application of
  computational tools and approaches for expanding
  the use of biological, medical, behavioral or
  health data,including those to acquire, store,
  organize, archive, analyze, or visualize such
  data.The overall goal of this data upgrade
  process is to elucidate cell function and
  physiology from a comprehensive set of
  measurements. Various computational methods are
  being widely used to address a broad spectrum of
  problems in functional genomics and cell
  physiology, including analysis of sequences,
  (alignment, homology discovery, gene annotation),
  gene clustering, pattern recognition/discovery in
  large-scale expression data, elucidation of
  genetic regulatory circuits, analysis of
  metabolic networks and signal transduction
  pathways in metabolic engineering, drug design,
  and biotechnology.
• Amity Institute of Biotechnology has a well
  equipped Bioinformatics lab and plans to organize
  a series of workshops, with a target that at the
  end of the entire series the growing body of
  information from molecular biology and genome
  research is available to the participants in ways
  that promote scientific progress and in building
  their careers.
• This workshop, the first in the series, will
  help the participants in their step-wise
  knowledge building under one roof shared by
  distinguished speakers from academia as well as
  the corporate sector. It aims at familiarizing
  scientists with the enormous potential of IT
  integration. The highlights of the workshop are
  the intensive hand-on-experience on real-time
  problem solving sessions complementing the
  interactions with the renowned speakers.
• The first three day workshop will be held on
  8th, 9th and 10th of September, 2005.

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• Workshop Highlights
• The three day workshop will focus on how
  to use public databases and bioinformatics
  software to facilitate nucleotide and protein
  sequence analysis. It will also address the
  basic questions one can ask starting with a
  sequence, the types of algorithms that are
  available, resources for running those algorithms
  and interpreting the results.
• Each day there will be lectures and hands-on
  computer lab-sessions. The participants would
  also be provided with workshop materials. The
  broad areas to be covered during various sessions
  include
• Type and organization of biological data
• Data modeling and warehousing needed for
  biological analysis
• Use of statistical methods for DNA Sequence
  analysis
• Protein sequence Analysis and Phylogenetic
  analysis
• 3-D structure visualization, structure analysis
  and prediction
• Interpretation of large-scale gene expression
  data applications to comparative genomics
• Transcriptome Alternate splicing and gene
  expression
• Emerging business Opportunities across the globe,
  new language of omes and omics
• Hands-on experience on related software, case
  studies, actual real-time problem solving and
  open discussion session

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• Level
• The workshop is intended for principal
  investigators, postdoctoral fellows, graduate
  students, advanced undergraduates, and other
  scientific staff who either work in genomics and
  proteomics or are interested in understanding how
  to incorporate such data into their research.
• Biotechnology/Life science/pharmaceutical
  professionals and managers seeking an applied
  introduction to the areas of bioinformatics.
• IT professionals/graduates wishing to expand
  their skills and experience into the growing
  field of bioinformatics.

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About AIB The Amity Institute of Biotechnology
(AIB) is located on the sprawling Amity
University, U.P., Amity Campus in Sector 125 at
NOIDA (an adjoining township of New Delhi), which
is developing as one of the biggest business and
entrepreneurial centres in Asia. Breadth of
knowledge, quality and flexibility are the
hallmarks of Amity Institute of Biotechnology.
The programmes of study provide our students with
the skills necessary to meet the demands of a
changing and a challenging global environment.
Each of the Biotechnology programmes prepares
students for challenging careers in the industry
and upward mobility for higher studies and
research in this subject. Strong on-campus
inputs are provided by the Amity Business School
and Amity Institute of Information Technology for
entrepreneurship development and Bioinformatics.
About Mascon Mascon Life Sciences is
bioinformatics division of Mascon Global Limited
(MGL) set up to provide solutions to critical
problems in complex biological systems using
information technology as a tool. Mascon had been
working with several customers in Healthcare
sector. Some of the prestigious clients include
Merck Medco, Centre for Disease Control (CDC),
Abbot laboratories etc. Mascon has also executed
a few projects with clients in the area of
clinical trials in US. Mascon Bioinformatics
Center was set up in November 2001, at Delhi. It
aims to provide world-class products and services
in Bioinformatics and will seek to establish
itself as world-renowned center for research and
development in Computational Biology and allied
fields.
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Registration The forms can be downloaded from
www.amity.edu/workshops/aib/RegistrationForm.doc
www.masconlifesciences.com The forms are also
available from AIB,Sector-125, NOIDA E-mail
ssahi_at_aib.amity.edu To register, the registration
fee along with the completed registration form
should be sent to the Coordinator at the below
given address before 30th August 2005. The fee
has to be paid by way of demand draft drawn in
favor of Amity Institute of Biotechnology,Noida
payable at Noida/Delhi. Workshop fee ( Includes
course material) Rs.2000/- Note that the seats
are limited and will be allotted according to
first-come basis and industrial/academic/research
position. The completed application should be
sent to The Coordinator Bioinformatics
Workshop Bioinformatics Division Amity Institute
of Biotechnology Amity University, Uttar
Pradesh Sector 125, Noida UP Email
ssahi_at_aib.amity.edu,csarmah_at_aib.amity.edu,shakti_s
ahi_at_lycos.com Phone [phone]
(Ext. 169)
7
Ashram Chowk