12th Bioinformatics Spring School
Altes Kloster Hainburg, Austria
17. - 21.03. 2012
The 12th edition of the Spring School of Bioinformatics for Molecular Biologists will be held from 17th through 21th of March 2012. The course is organized by the Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology of the Helmholtz Centre München (IBIS) together with the University of Vienna. It is part of the HMGU Ph.D. programme (Helena Graduate School) but also open to other Ph.D. students and post-graduates. Furthermore it is part of the Helmholtz Alliance in Systems Biology. Directors are H.W. Mewes (Helmholtz Zentrum München) and T. Rattei (Univ. Wien).
Research in the Life sciences is observation and sophisticated interpretation of information in the context of the current knowledge. We all are aware that life science is now data driven, we face a tsunami of highly complex information from different omics-technologies as well as medical and clinical information. Not only manage-ment of the data and running sequence similarity searches are black boxes to many biologists, but the fundamental question how to transform data into knowledge must become part of the strategy of almost any Ph.D. project.
Having an intuitive look at the data cannot perform the exploration of the experiment while ignoring the existing knowledge. Often, the “more the better” in data collection comes first and the nightmare of data analysis follows. The course will try to demystify “computational biology”, it will to introduce basic principles and advances of bioinformatics and systems biology and, at the same time, foster interdisciplinary ideas and stimulate discussion between experts and students.
In this year’s Spring School, the course will focus on methods in systems biology such as Next Generation Sequence Analysis. Experienced faculty members will introduce the basics in tutorials but also discuss new developments in the interdisciplinary fields of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. The concept of the course is tailored for Molecular Biologists and aims to support the important dialogue between the experimentalist interested in a specific biological problem and the theoretician eager to solve problems in a generic, reusable way. The alliance between the generation of biological data and methods of interpretation and modelling of biological systems will be pivotal for the future.
The course aims to provide a head start in this important interdisciplinary field by presenting basic concepts as well as recent applications. The intended audience is Ph.D. students and junior scientists. Its main subjects will be the integration of information, biological networks, and concepts in Systems Biology. The course is supported by the Helmholtz Graduate School (HELENA) and the TUM Graduate School.
Please register as soon as possible since the number of available places is limited (30)! Please distribute this invitation to all interested Ph.D. students and young scien-tists. For reservations please contact IBIS (ibis.office@helmholtz-muenchen.de).
Sincerely yours,
H. Werner Mewes
