This page lists events at The Department of Bioinformatics and events in which members of the BiGCaT group participate. The list is build on a case by case base and often serves as a pointer to current announcements it is not intended to be a complete list.

Starting again January 21 2005  informal bioinformatics lunch meetings will be held from 12.15 to 13.15 every 1st and 3rd Friday in every month in room k.4.140a UNS50.
The first meetings of this year will be focussed on sequence annotation. We are ultimately aiming at a better understanding of the pitfalls in microarray reporter annotation (and usage thereoff). We will start with discussing some rather broad background themes though.

• Content of genomic databases (what can I find where)
• Origin of genomic databases (what kind trivialities caused the problems you can encounter)
• Background of alignment tools (why were they developed, how do they work, why doesn't a Blastx of a low quality sequence work).
• How to use and not use alignments tools (why you should *not* look at the E-value of a Blast result)
• Principles of datamining

Note that these themes cover most of what would be part of an introductory course on "databases and database searching". A lot of people have shown an interest in such a course and we hope that many of those will be able to attend the lunchmeetings.
Please contact Chris Evelo so we can update you on program changes, special topics and so on. Bring your own lunch.