On November 2-8, 2006, a group of scientists participated in the School of Bioinformatics, held in Rhodes Hall on the Cornell University campus. The School was designed to use the resources available at Cornell University to introduce scientists to the field of bioinformatics. World-leading experts lectured in many subjects including software development, engineering, system architecture and modeling. After each morning of lectures, the School participants spent the afternoons in hands-on laboratory sessions putting these skills to work. A summary of the School activities is below.

Thursday, November 2, 2006

• School opening and welcome.
• Lecture: Protein Structure Prediction. Fold Recognition. (Ron Elber)
• Lecture: Sequence-Based Data Mining. (Jaroslaw Pillardy)
• Lab Part 1: Sequence Data Mining and Data Analysis. (Qi Sun)
• Lab Part 2: CBSU Clusters and Parallel Applications. (Jaroslaw Pillardy and Qi Sun)
• School Dinner.

Friday, November 3, 2006

• Lecture 1: Introduction to SQL. (Johannes Gehrke)
• Lecture 2: Motif Finding. (Uri Keich)
• Lab Part 1: Protein Structure Prediction. (Daniel Ripoll)
• Lab Part 2: 3-D Structure Visualization. (Daniel Ripoll)

Saturday, November 4, 2006

• Free day, tour of the Cornell campus.

Sunday, November 5, 2006

• Lecture 1: Overview of Current Biological Databases. (Qi Sun)
• Lecture 2: Gene Prediction and Function Annotation. (Qi Sun)
• Lab: Microsoft SQL & Visual Studio.NET (Jaroslaw Pillardy)

Monday, November 6, 2006

• Lecture 1: Population Genetics. (Andrew Clark)
• Lecture 2: Clustering. (Rich Caruana)
• Lab Part 1: Gene Prediction. (Qi Sun)
• Lab Part 2: Gene Annotation. (Qi Sun)
• School Reception.

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

• Lecture 1: Microbial Genomics. (Michael Stanhope)
• Lecture 2: Computer Vision. Object Recognition. (Daniel Huttenlocher)
• Lab: Comparative Genomics. (Qi Sun)

Wednesday, November 8, 2006

• Lecture 1: Introduction to SVM. (Thorsten Joachims)
• Lecture 2 (cancelled due to changing airline schedule): Whole Genome Analysis. (Adam Siepel)