Mouse Genome Informatics Workshops
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
The Ontario Genomics Institute (OGI) hosted a series of six workshops on mouse genome informatics in partnership with The Jackson Laboratory and The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG). The 2 hour workshops (see Workshop Handout for more details) provided hands-on training in the use of Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI) resources developed at The Jackson Laboratory. Additionally, these workshops were a first step towards establishing a mouse genomics network in Toronto.
Originally planned were 3 workshop sessions; however, due to overwhelming interest in the workshops, the series was expanded to 6 sessions. This resulted in a total of 84 members of the Toronto research community participating in these hands-on workshops.
The workshops contained interactive tutorials that demonstrated bioinformatics approaches for the following:
- find mouse models of human disease;
- identify single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), PCR polymorphisms and biological sequences specific to mouse strains;
- locate quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with a specific phenotype;
- view mouse markers, alleles, and phenotypes mapped onto a genome browser;
- find gene expression assays and images for specific anatomical structures and developmental stages;
- view terms describing the molecular function, biological processes, and cellular component of a gene, and retrieve a list of genes annotated with a specific Gene Ontology (GO) term.
