| FRIDAY, 3 July | ||
| 08:30 | Course Registration | Foyer, ICGEB, W Building |
| 09:15 | Welcome Address | Seminar Room, ICGEB Sándor Pongor, ICGEB, Trieste, Italy |
| 09:30 | The ICGEB computer system – practicals | Informatics Laboratory, L2 Building Kristian Vlahovicek, ICGEB, Trieste, Italy Maria Verina, SpringFirm,Trieste, Italy |
| 11:00 | BREAK | |
| 11:30 | Introduction to algorithms in bioinformatics | Sándor Pongor |
| 13:30 | LUNCH | Cafeteria, Ground Floor, Building C |
| 14:30 | Database searching, GCG package — practicals | David Judge, University of Cambridge, UK Jack Leunissen, University of Nijmegen,The Netherlands |
| 18:00 | BUS TO HOTEL | |
| SATURDAY, 4 July | ||
| 09:00 | Database searching, GCG package — practicals (cont.) | David Judge, Jack Leunissen |
| 13:30 | GET-TOGETHER | Staff Common Room, ICGEB, W Building |
| 14:30 | Database searching, GCG package — practicals (cont.) | David Judge, Jack Leunissen |
| 18:00 | BUS TO HOTEL | |
| MONDAY, 6 July | ||
| 09:00 | Database searching, GCG package — practicals (cont.) | David Judge, Jack Leunissen |
| 11:00 | BREAK | |
| 11:30 | Database searching, GCG package — practicals (cont.) | David Judge, Jack Leunissen |
| 13:30 | LUNCH | |
| 14:30 | Database searching, GCG package — practicals (cont.) | David Judge, Jack Leunissen |
| 18:00 | BUS TO HOTEL | |
| TUESDAY, 7 July | ||
| 09:00 | GCG package | David Judge, Jack Leunissen |
| 11:00 | BREAK | |
| 11:30 | GCG package (cont.) | David Judge, Jack Leunissen |
| 13:30 | LUNCH | |
| 14:30 | Protein sequence databases (to be confirmed) | Amos Bairoch, University of Geneva,Switzerland |
| 18:00 | BUS TO HOTEL | |
| WEDNESDAY, 8 July | ||
| 09:00 | Rapid database searches on the Bioccelerator: The evolvement of sequence analysis algorithms | Leon Estermann, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot,Israel Ari Manor, CompugenLtd., Petach-Tikva, Israel |
| 09:30 | Framesearch, Profilesearch, Frame+, Proframesearch | |
| 10:30 | BREAK | |
| 11:00 | HMM & GeneWise algorithms | |
| 12:00 | Demonstration on GenWeb &the Bioccelerator and the XL/P on the Weizmann servers | |
| 12:30 | Principles of hardware acceleration | |
| 13:30 | LUNCH | |
| 14:30 | NCBI services, nucleic acid databases | David Landsman, NIH/NLM/NCBI, Bethesda, MD, USA |
| 18:00 | BUS TO HOTEL | |
| THURSDAY, 9 July | ||
| 09:00 | WWW servers, EBI servers | Robert Harper, EMBL-EBI,Cambridge, UK |
| 11:00 | BREAK | |
| 11:30 | WWW servers, EBI servers (cont.) | Robert Harper, EMBL-EBI,Cambridge, UK |
| 13:30 | LUNCH | |
| 14:30 | WWW servers, EBI servers (cont.) | Robert Harper, EMBL-EBI,Cambridge, UK |
| 18:00 | BUS TO HOTEL | |
| FRIDAY, 10 July | ||
| 09:00 | Genome computing | Martin Bishop, UK HGMP ResearchCentre, Cambridge, UK David Judge, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 11:00 | BREAK | |
| 11:30 | Genome computing (cont.) | Martin Bishop, UK HGMP ResearchCentre, Cambridge, UK David Judge, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 13:30 | LUNCH | |
| 14:30 | Genome computing (cont.) | Martin Bishop, UK HGMP ResearchCentre, Cambridge, UK David Judge, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 18:00 | BUS TO HOTEL | |