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SUMMARY:The importance of Bioinformatics in studying a wide range of disea
 ses - Speaker to be confirmed
DTSTART:20161005T173000Z
DTEND:20161005T190000Z
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CONTACT:Mark Dunning
DESCRIPTION:This talk provides an overview of the bioinformatics tools use
 d for studying primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs)\, which are hereditary di
 seases of the immune system. Although many bioinformatics tools for PIDs a
 re already freely available and can aid diagnosis\, prediction\, mutation 
 analysis and classification\, most resources are stand-alone systems and t
 hus their\nintegration is challenging. The speakers will discuss the mutat
 ion PID databases\, the IDbases and the development of a data warehouse fo
 r PIDs in OpenClinica.\n\nThe second part of the masterclass will present 
 the Mouse Genomes Project. Although belonging to the same species\, the st
 rains of mice used in scientific studies are very different. In spite of t
 hese differences\, there is currently only one mouse reference genome and 
 there is\nmuch less evidence for gene structures in genetically distant st
 rains. These distant strains are important as they include founders for re
 combinant panels. This presentation will present our efforts to generate n
 ovel reference genomes and annotations for 16 mouse strains.
LOCATION:Postdoc Centre\, 16 Mill Lane
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