Genome Analysis using Artemis.

Artemis is a genome viewer and annotation tool from the Sanger Centre. It allows visualization of sequence features and the results of analyses within the context of the sequence and its six-frame translation.

Artemis can read complete EMBL and GENBANK database entries or sequence in FASTA or raw format, and can work on sequences of any size. Artemis is one of the bioinformatics analysis tools available via your CBRG molbiol account.

This day-long course will be held on Friday, 18th March, 2005. The course is free and will be taught by members of the Pathogen Sequencing Unit from the Sanger Centre. If you are a molbiol account holder and are interested in attending this course, please email genmail

For the course outline, see below.

For further information regarding Artemis, please see: www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis

Artemis screenshots

Course Outline:

Introduction

• Microbial genomics and introductory talk
• Introduction to The Sanger Institute Pathogen Sequencing Unit
• An overview of microbial genome analysis

Artemis

• Demonstration of 'Artemis' followed by 'Hands on' Artemis exercises. This will aim to give a concise introduction to Artemis, covering primary sequence analysis as well as uploading and viewing/re-analysing data derived from public databases.

ACT

• Introduction to ACT, a genome comparison tool, followed by a workshop featuring ACT. A series of guided exercises will be provided covering multiple bacterial genomes that will aim to familiarise the participant with this software as well as illustrate some of the more interesting data that can be generated by comparison of closely related genomes.
• Blast comparison for ACT - creating the Blast comparison files needed to run the ACT software.

It is anticipated that the course will finish no later than 5.30 pm.