BEN has also special modules of one day for advanced users. The courses consist of introductory seminars followed by training sessions, where each attendant will have the use of a personal computer workstation.

Information about Modules

Module Date Contents Genomics 15 October 2007 managing DNA sequencing projects with the Staden software tools for comparing long genomic fragments (BLASTZ,...) databanks with informations about genomes: the NCBI, the UCSC Genome Browser, EnsEMBL, OMIM, ... Phylogeny 8 October 2007 general notions : rooted and unrooted trees, sequence trees versus species trees tree building algorithms : parsimony, UPGMA, NJ, ML,... testing tree robustness : jacknife, bootstrap exercises with CLUSTAL, PHYLIP, Seaview, TreeView and NJplot demonstration of PAUP and MacClade on Macintosh Unix 22 October 2007 terminals (telnet, SSH, Tektronix, X-Window) UNIX commands and shell scripts, ASCII text processing, job scheduling expert use of EMBOSS and other molecular biology software in a terminal installing personal databanks E-mail forwarding, personal Web pages, Internet news Perl 23 October 2007 basics of Perl (variables and operators, pattern matching, file handling,...) Perl libraries : writing your own, downloading from CPAN or Bioperl

The next BEN sessions will be held in the PC room of the unit BISI, in the building A of the campus Medicine and Pharmacy of the V.U.B., Laarbeeklaan 103, Jette. Timing is from 9.00 to 18.00.
If you reach the campus by car, take the "ring west of Brussels" direction "Heizel" "Zaventem", exit number 9, and follow the road signs.
You can also reach the campus with public transports: if you take the train, go down at Brussels North Station and take the bus number 14, direction AZ VUB. If you take the underground, go down at Simonis station and take the bus number 13 or 14, direction AZ VUB.
A fee of 10 € per attendant is due. Prior registration is needed, contact our Team.

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