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Next Wednesday, 29 July, Professors Doug McEachern and Peter Leedman will be hosting a visit to UWA by two EMBL-EBI (European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute) specialists - Maria Martin and Rodrigo Lopez .

Each of these scientists is an EMBL Senior Scientist, and this provides a great opportunity to discover more about Bioinformatics at EMBL-EBI , including:

• Public data resources at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) ;
• The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA);
• UniProt: resources contents and user services;
• Bioinformatics services infrastructure and frameworks;
• Ware-house approaches (i.e. SRS and meta-data-based solutions );
• How to get data. ASPERA, PTP, gridFTP, hardware mirrors, read-only database replication;
• ELIXIR-services (model for mirroring/hosting life-sciences).

The details of the seminar are as follows:

Speakers: Dr Maria Martin, Head Coordinator UniProt, EMBL-EBI; Mr Rodrigo Lopez, Head of External Services, EMBL-EBI
Date: 29 July 2009
Time: 15.30 - 17.30
Venue: WAIMR Seminar Room, Ground Floor, B Block, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands