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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We are pleased to announce the following SIB course on:
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:red"><a href="https://www.sib.swiss/training/course/20210412_PRODB">Protein sequence databases and sequence annotation at UniProtKB, 12 April 2021, Streamed
 from Geneva</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This course, including the practical hands-on exercises, will give some basic theoretical and practical knowledge on protein sequence databases with a focus on
<a href="https://www.uniprot.org/">UniProtKB</a>, on the different manual and automated annotation pipelines (such as
<a href="https://hamap.expasy.org/">HAMAP</a>) and, in particular, on the optimum use of UniProtKB.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This 1-day course is for biologists and bioinformaticians who seek to analyze protein data. It will also be useful to programmers and data scientists, be they from academia or industry, who programmatically
 access protein sequence databases and need to understand the data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Further detailed information, prerequisites and application form are available
<a href="https://www.sib.swiss/training/course/20210412_PRODB">here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at
<a href="mailto:training@sib.swiss">training@sib.swiss</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Have a good week,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Monique<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH">Monique Zahn</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Helvetica&quot;,sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:FR-CH"><br>
Quality Manager, neXtProt &amp; Training Manager<br>
<b><span style="color:red">SIB</span> | <span style="color:black">Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics</span></b><br>
1, rue Michel Servet - CH 1211 Geneva 4 - Switzerland<br>
t +41 22 379 49 34<br>
Monique.Zahn@sib.swiss - www.sib.swiss<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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