Workshop details

Biological databases are central to Bioinformatics. In this workshop we will get familiar with the major resources available on the web for the exploration of biological information, including genomic, protein structure, drugs and literature databases.

Learning objectives

• Recognize where to find the main categories of biological information;

• Access and retrieve records of major biological databases;

• Recognize different file formats in the presented databases repositories;

• Explore linking records from one database to others.

Syllabus

• History of biological databases;

• Biological databases utilities;

• Contributing data to biological databases;

• Sequence databases;

• Databases classification;

• Nucleotide databases;

• Some databases file formats (FASTA, etc.)

• Databases available at NCBI;

• ENSEMBL genomic databases;

• UniProt Knowledge Base;

• Protein Data Bank;

• Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes;

• Biological Databases integration;

Format

• Zoom live webinar: 1h live webinar with pre-recorded presentation split in two sessions of 30min each with a break of 5min between them. Attendees are welcome to join asynchronous live group discussion (Q&A) with the speaker on Discord during and after the scheduled session.

• General discussion session: 1h Q&A recurrent pre-dated session booked for attendees of multiple slots of this workshop.

• Recorded presentation: Attendees registering using a Google e-mail account, will have private access to the recorded webinars.

• Certificate: all attendees checking-in and out of both 30min sessions will be entitled to receive a certificate of participation (PDF/PNG) that can be shared on your social media with credentials (QR-code) that can be verified on our website, with an option (extra fee) to register as a NFT asset with an unique address on the Ethereum blockchain.