Two-day workshops were held on two separate occasions to disseminate SABRE project outcomes and related themes to breeding companies and related organisations prior to SABRE closing on 30th September 2010. The first workshop was be held in Lelystad (The Netherlands) on 2-3rd September 2010 and the second workshop took place in Ljubljana (Slovenia) on 13-14th September 2010.

The workshops were not intended to be large-scale conferences, but focussed workshops specifically aimed at industries who could benefit from the results of the SABRE project. There were three principle sessions on genomic tools and methods, providing a comprehensive review and using SABRE developed tools where relevant as a key.

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The Principles of Genetic Improvement (PGI) course is available as a CD ROM based distance learning course. PGI has been developed by the University of Edinburgh, Scottish Agricultural College and Roslin Institute to promote knowledge in the field of genetic improvement in animals. PGI contains over 40 hours of lectures in a easily accessible format that allows you to learn at your own pace, is interactive and includes web based support.

For further information about PGI please see the website www.pgi-portal.com where you can view examples of the course under ‘Why buy PGI?’. 

• Online modular degree programme – University of Leeds and Manchester. http://wunlearn.leeds.ac.uk/details/
• Online modular degree programme – University of Oxford. http://bioinfomsc.stats.ox.ac.uk/
• Courses available at NCBI http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Education/ 
• The S* group of teaching institutions have formed a global alliance to provide a global, unified bioinformatics learning environment (GLOBULE) made up of modular courses in the disciplines of genomics, bioinformatics, and medical informatics. http://www.s-star.org/course.html

Online lectures

• Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics. Series of online lectures on Bioinformatics – including exercises and answers. http://lectures.molgen.mpg.de/online_lectures.html
• New York University School of Medicine. List of lectures available to view online. http://www.med.nyu.edu/rcr/rcr/btr/complete.html

Resources

• Bioinformatics Online. News on Jobs, PhDs, EngDs, the latest happenings in Industry. All this, plus an active user community, wiki, and lots of info, more applicable for established users than beginners. http://bioinformaticsonline.co.uk/
• The Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. This group serves the scientific and educational needs of bioinformatic practitioners and the general public. They develop and maintain computational resources to facilitate world-wide communications and collaborations between people of all educational and professional levels. They also provide and promote open access to the materials and methods required for, and derived from, research, development and education. http://bioinformatics.org/
• International Society for Computational Biology. List of available resources. http://www.iscb.org/ 

SABRE sponsored the the 13th QTL-MAS Workshop in Wageningen, The Netherlands on 20-21st April 2009.  The book of abstracts can be downloaded by clicking here.

The Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre (Wageningen-UR) in co-operation with Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences, Roslin Institute, and SABRE previously organised a QTL Mapping, MAS, and Genomic Selection course in Lelystad in the Netherlands on March 10-14, 2008.  A report and course notes from the course are available at SABRE Publications or by clicking here.

Cytoscape software training was provided by Sigenae (http://www.sigenae.org/) to 40 EADGENE and SABRE delegates at the Post-analyses Workshop (12-14 November 2008, Lelystad).  Cytoscape is a software tool that enable the users to visualize molecular interaction networks and metabolite pathways, with their annotations, expression profils or any associated attributes. The Cytoscape core distribution provides basic tools for data integration and visualisation. Advanced fonctionnalities are available as plugins. Plugins are, for example, network analysis toos, layouts, additional file format import /export features, scripting modules, data source connectors. Many plugins are freely available. For any information about Cystoscape, see http://www.cytoscape.org.

Sigenae Training Downloads and Links:

• Sigenae Cytoscape webpage (see EADGENE section)
• Sigenae course slides (PDF)
• Sigenae course exercises (PDF)
• Link to data for exercises