Program

To download the course material, click here (Last update: 07/01/2012).

Unzip the folder and replace the files if you have an old version. To start the application, double click on “BMITM2012_START.exe”.

PART 1: The course material is available also on the speakers [Pr. Sami Khuri] website: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~khuri/Rabat_2012/

Part 1 [Pr. Sami Khuri]
Multiple alignment and phylogeny
Monday, January 02 Pairwise Alignment and Similarity Search
Session 1 Pairwise Alignment and Similarity Search
09:00 Pairwise Alignment
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Similarity Search
12:30 Lunch
Session 2 Pairwise Alignment and Similarity Search Hands-on
14:00 Pairwise Alignment Hands-on
15:45 Coffee break
16:15 – 17:30 Similarity Search Hands-on


Tuesday, January 03 Multiple Sequence Alignments
Session 3 Sequence Similarity Search
09:00 Pairwise Sequence Alignment
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Dynamic Programming
12:30 Lunch
Session 4 Multiple Sequence Alignment
14:00 Multiple Sequence Alignment
15:00 Formal Opening Session
15:45 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 Advanced Hands-On – Pairwise and Multiple Sequence Alignments


Wednesday, January 04 Phylogenetic trees
Session 10 Construction of Phylogenetic Trees
09:00 Phylogenetic trees
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 Distance-based and Character-based Phylogenetic trees
Afternoon Free time
18:30 – 21:00 Social Event : Gala Dinner


Part 2 [Ms. Salima M'seffar]
BioMedical Information
Thursday, January 05 Online Biomedical Information literature searches
Session 8 Medical Information searching tools
09:00 Information sources
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Searching tools
12:30 Lunch
Session 9 Medical Information searching Hands-on
14:00 Information sources and Searching Tools
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 – 17 :30 Electronic Information Searching Techniques presentation


Part 3 [Pr. Peter J. Tonellato]
Translational Medicine
Friday, January 06 Translational Science on the Cloud, Pharmacogenetics and Predictions of Personalized Medicine
Session 5 Identifying Genetic Variation
09:00 Finding Variants in Genes
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Statistical Characterization of a Population
12:30 Lunch
Session 6 Clinical Avatar Application
14:00 From Algorithms to Data Model
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Filling in the Genotypes
17:30 – 19 :00 Simulations using the Clinical Avatars Web Application


Saturday, January 07 Informatics Databases and Tools
Session 7 Informatics Databases and Tools
09:00 “participation” in study
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Data Analysis
12:00 – 13:00 Whole Genome Analysis and Personalized Medicine
End of the event

Formal opening session

The formal opening session of the workshop will be held on January 02, at 3:00 p.m., in the Main Conference Room of the Faculty of Sciences, Rabat. The program includes:

Prof. Khalid SADKI, Chair: welcoming note.

Prof. Saaid AMZAZI, Dean of the Faculty of Sciences: Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics teaching in Biomedical Sciences.

Prof. Azeddine Ibrahimi, Cochair, Faculty of medicine of Rabat, Bioinformatics for MDs.

Prof. Sami Khuri, San José State University, CA, USA: Future trends in Bioinformatics training.

Prof. Peter J. Tonellato, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA: From brut data to personalized medicine.

 

Other lectures by Peter J. Tonellato

Pr. Peter J. Tonellato will present two other lectures in Fez and Casablanca, for more information click here.

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