From bert at ebi.ac.uk Wed Feb 15 11:42:51 2012 From: bert at ebi.ac.uk (bert at ebi.ac.uk) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:42:51 -0000 (UTC) Subject: [ensembl-announce] Ensembl API workshop in Cambridge 21-23 March 2012 Message-ID: <44080.172.22.69.8.1329306171.squirrel@webmail.ebi.ac.uk> Hello all, >From Wednesday 21 until Friday 23 March 2012 members of the Ensembl team will give another Ensembl API workshop at the Genetics Department of the University of Cambridge in the UK. DESCRIPTION: 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. There are no costs for the workshop. *********** NOTE: Similar workshops will be given on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton from 9-11 May and 9-11 October 2012. Employees of the EBI and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute are kindly asked to attend the Hinxton workshops instead of the Cambridge workshops, if possible. *********** PREREQUISITES: This workshop is NOT intended to teach you either Perl or 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. SCHEDULE: Wednesday 21 March 2012: 09:30 - 14:30: Core API 14:30 - 17:00: Functional Genomics API Thursday 22 March 2012: 09:30 - 11:30: Functional Genomics API 11:30 - 17:00: Variation API Friday 23 March 2012: 09:30 - 17:00: Compara API REGISTRATION: To register for this workshop, please go to: http://www.training.cam.ac.uk/event/318462 MORE INFORMATION: If you have any questions about the workshop you can mail me at bert at ebi.ac.uk. Cheers, Bert -- Bert Overduin, Ph.D. Vertebrate Genomics Team EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD United Kingdom http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~bert Ensembl browser: http://www.ensembl.org Mailing lists: http://www.ensembl.org/info/about/contact/mailing.html Blog: http://www.ensembl.info YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/EnsemblHelpdesk Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ensembl.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/Ensembl From ap5 at sanger.ac.uk Wed Feb 29 10:25:33 2012 From: ap5 at sanger.ac.uk (Anne Parker) Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:25:33 +0000 Subject: [ensembl-announce] Archive retirement Message-ID: Hi all Please be aware that we will be retiring the following archives at the end of March 2012, as they fall outside our three-year window and have no critical assemblies: * 50 (July 2008) * 51 (November 2008) * 52 (December 2008) Data from these releases will continue to be available through our public database server and FTP site, and the accompanying code can be checked out from our CVS repository. Regards Anne Anne Parker Ensembl Web Production Manager http://www.ensembl.org From bert at ebi.ac.uk Wed Feb 15 11:42:51 2012 From: bert at ebi.ac.uk (bert at ebi.ac.uk) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:42:51 -0000 (UTC) Subject: [ensembl-announce] Ensembl API workshop in Cambridge 21-23 March 2012 Message-ID: <44080.172.22.69.8.1329306171.squirrel@webmail.ebi.ac.uk> Hello all, >From Wednesday 21 until Friday 23 March 2012 members of the Ensembl team will give another Ensembl API workshop at the Genetics Department of the University of Cambridge in the UK. DESCRIPTION: 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. There are no costs for the workshop. *********** NOTE: Similar workshops will be given on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton from 9-11 May and 9-11 October 2012. Employees of the EBI and Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute are kindly asked to attend the Hinxton workshops instead of the Cambridge workshops, if possible. *********** PREREQUISITES: This workshop is NOT intended to teach you either Perl or 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. SCHEDULE: Wednesday 21 March 2012: 09:30 - 14:30: Core API 14:30 - 17:00: Functional Genomics API Thursday 22 March 2012: 09:30 - 11:30: Functional Genomics API 11:30 - 17:00: Variation API Friday 23 March 2012: 09:30 - 17:00: Compara API REGISTRATION: To register for this workshop, please go to: http://www.training.cam.ac.uk/event/318462 MORE INFORMATION: If you have any questions about the workshop you can mail me at bert at ebi.ac.uk. Cheers, Bert -- Bert Overduin, Ph.D. Vertebrate Genomics Team EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD United Kingdom http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~bert Ensembl browser: http://www.ensembl.org Mailing lists: http://www.ensembl.org/info/about/contact/mailing.html Blog: http://www.ensembl.info YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/EnsemblHelpdesk Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ensembl.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/Ensembl From ap5 at sanger.ac.uk Wed Feb 29 10:25:33 2012 From: ap5 at sanger.ac.uk (Anne Parker) Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:25:33 +0000 Subject: [ensembl-announce] Archive retirement Message-ID: Hi all Please be aware that we will be retiring the following archives at the end of March 2012, as they fall outside our three-year window and have no critical assemblies: * 50 (July 2008) * 51 (November 2008) * 52 (December 2008) Data from these releases will continue to be available through our public database server and FTP site, and the accompanying code can be checked out from our CVS repository. Regards Anne Anne Parker Ensembl Web Production Manager http://www.ensembl.org