Workshop on genome annotation

The two-day workshop aims to give researchers with a working knowledge of commonly used Computational tools used in Genome Annotation projects. Extensive hands on will be provided to use latest genome analysis software, Artemis and ACT, developed at the Wellcome Trust Institute and a few Next Generation Sequence (NGS) data analysis software.
Artemis is a powerful annotation tool and DNA viewer that allows the user to analyze sequence data from databases such as EMBL or Genbank. ACT is a comparative genomic tool that allows direct, and interactive, comparisons of multiple genomes/read sequences. This enables the user to exploit the growing number of genomes and NGS data from closely related organisms to look at genome architecture and evolution.
The course hands-on will be conducted by the research staff of the Bioinformatics Laboratory, Structural and Computational Biology Group and will be deliberated in the form of a series of modules covering most aspects of sequence analysis for Genome Annotation. Each module will be introduced with a short talk followed by ‘hands on’, to illustrate points in whole genome analysis.