STARS

Sequence Typing Analysis and Retrieval System - STARS is an alternative interface to Staden for sequence assembly during sequence typing projects.

Introduction - Sequence typing projects typically involve the sequencing of the same gene, or gene fragment, many times in order to determine polymorphisms.The standard Staden interfaces, pregap4 and gap4, are more suited to assembling long contigs.

The STARS interface, on the other hand has been designed with sequence typing projects in mind and allows the assembly of large numbers of short contigs into the same database. These contigs can be retrieved and edited from the interface using a standard Staden contig editor. The system also performs user logging etc and can therefore be used as a lab database for your projects.

For more information about STARS, see the STARS web page.

Date - This half-long course will be held on the morning of Friday, 15th July, 2005, starting at 9:30 am.

The course is free for molbiol account holders and will be held in the CAL lab in the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre (behind the Dunn School of Pathology on South Parks Road - see building 34 on this map).

Course Outline:

• Introduction to STARS (~45 minutes) - Man-Suen Chan
• STARS tutorial with example data (~1-2 hours) - Angela Brueggemann

If you are a molbiol account holder and are interested in attending this course, please email the CBRG at, genmail@molbiol.ox.ac.uk