BioneQ, the Quebec Bioinformatics Network, is organizing the first North American BioJava Bootcamp from August 18th to 22nd. We have invited Matthew Pocock to come to Montreal to present the material that has been presented to the European Bootcamps for quite some time now. On the agenda (preliminary):
-Sequence I/O and manipulations; -BLAST and FASTA parsing; -Using databases with BioJava; -Intro to Sequence GUI.
The bootcamp will be at the Universite de Montreal and the registration fee is $250US. If you are interested, use the following link to register:
http://132.204.90.239/bioneq/biojava_workshop.jsp
Please paste in your CV for evaluation of programming experience/knowledge. Places are quite limited (20) so register soon.