In May the Ensembl team will again provide a 3-day Ensembl Perl API workshop on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton, United Kingdom. Although this workshop is primarily meant for campus employees, external participants are also more than welcome to attend.

The workshop itself is free of cost. You should note though that our campus is located a bit in the middle of nowhere and that you have to make your own arrangements for accommodation and/or travel. A similar workshop will be given again end of the year at the University of Cambridge (27-29 November 2013).

For more information and to register please mail me (bert@ebi.ac.uk).

3-DAY ENSEMBL API WORKSHOP
Time: 22-24 May 2013, 9:30-17:00
Place: Teaching room, EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Instructors: Magali Ruffier, Thomas Juettemann, Anja Thormann, Matthieu Muffato, Javier Herrero
Cost: none

The Ensembl project provides a comprehensive and integrated source of annotation of mainly vertebrate genome sequences. This 3-day workshop is aimed at researchers and developers interested in exploring Ensembl beyond the website. The workshop covers the core, compara, variation and functional genomics (regulation) databases and APIs. For each of these the database schema and the API design as well as its most important objects and their methods will be presented. This will be followed by practical sessions in which the participants can put the learned into practice by writing their own Perl scripts.

Important
This workshop is NOT intended to teach you either Perl or basic molecular biological and genetic concepts! To be able to attend you should be able to code in Perl and be familiar with basic molecular biology and genetics. A basic knowledge of Ensembl is advantageous.