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Training materials from the EMBO course Computational analysis of protein-protein interactions: Sequences, networks and diseases, taking place from 05 to 10 November 2018 in Rome, Italy.

EMBO Practical Course

Computational analysis of protein-protein interactions: Sequences, networks and diseases

05 – 10 November 2018 | Rome, Italy

DAY 1 - Monday 05 November 2018

Session I: PPI and diseases

Time Activity Responsible Title
09:00 - 09:15 Course Begins Allegra Via Introduction to the Course and Speakers
09:15 - 10:00 Overview lecture Toby Gibson Computational analysis of protein-protein interactions in cell function
10:00 - 10:30 Icebreaker & coffee break - -
10:30 - 11:30 Lecture & Demo Marco Punta Resources for Protein families, protein domains and protein complexes - I
11:30 - 13:00 Practical Marco Punta Resources for Protein families, protein domains and protein complexes - II
13:00 - 14:15 Lunch break - -
14:15 - 15:00 Practical Marco Punta Resources for Protein families, protein domains and protein complexes - II (continued)
15:00 - 16:00 Lecture & Practical Natasha Wood Web resources describing results of PPI experiments; design of such databases, minimal information to describe PPIs
16:00 - 16:30 Icebreaker & coffee break - -
16:30 - 17:30 Lecture & Practical Lars Juhl Jensen Protein association networks with STRING: Lecture & Practical
17:30 - 18:30 Lecture & Demo Scooter Morris Introducing network analysis using Cytoscape
19:30 onwards Dinner - -

DAY 2 - Tuesday 06 November 2018

Session II: Analysis and visualization of PPI networks

Time Activity Responsible Title
09:00 - 10:00 Plenary Talk Natasha Wood Understanding PPI and drug-resistance profiles of HIV-1 protein variants using molecular dynamics
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break - -
10:30 - 12:00 Lecture & Demo Scooter Morris & Lars Juhl Jensen Gaining insights into networks using Cytoscape
12:00 - 13:00 Practical Scooter Morris, Nadezhda Doncheva & Lars Juhl Jensen Analysis and visualization of PPI networks using Cytoscape and stringApp
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break - -

Session III: Protein Alignments

Time Activity Responsible Title
14:00 - 15:30 Practical Toby Gibson Revealing interactive features in protein multiple sequence alignments with Jalview
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break - -
16:00 - 18:00 Public Unseminar Malvika Sharan and Holger Dinkel Bioinformatics Tool-omics - optional informal discussion and activity
19:30 onwards Dinner - -

DAY 3 - Wednesday 07 November 2018

Session IV: Protein structures

Time Activity Responsible Title
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Scooter Morris Protein structure databases and Chimera tool to explore structure
09:30 - 10:30 Practical & Demo Scooter Morris Visualizing protein structures and interaction interfaces with UCSF Chimera
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break - -
11:00 - 12:30 Practical Scooter Morris Visualizing very large protein complexes with UCSF ChimeraX
12:30 - 14:30 Poster session - -
14:30 onward Excursion and dinner - -

DAY 4 - Thursday 08 November 2018

Session V: Intrinsically Disordered Regions (IDRs) and Tandem Repeats

Time Activity Responsible Title
09:00 - 10:30 Lecture & Practical Zsuzsanna Dosztányi Biology and prediction of intrinsically unstructured peptide regions [Exercises]
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break - -
11:00 - 11:30 Lecture Holger Dinkel Introduction of Linear motifs and IDRs
11:30 - 13:00 Practical Holger Dinkel & Toby Gibson Linear motif biology and prediction, cooperativity in cellular signaling (I)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break - -
14:00 - 15:00 Practical Holger Dinkel & Toby Gibson Linear motif biology and prediction, cooperativity in cellular signaling (II)
15:00 - 16:30 Lecture & Practical Miguel Andrade Structure and interactions of repeated and low complexity IDRs in proteins (MR1.fasta)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break - -
17:00 - 18:30 Option-1: Practical session Hands-on session on the presented tools with the trainers Work on own/publicly available disease data
17:00 - 18:30 Option-2: Practical session Holger Dinkel Linear motif biology and prediction, cooperativity in cellular signaling III: automated access of online tools using REST interfaces [Exercises]
19:30 onwards Dinner - -

DAY 5 - Friday 09 November 2018

Session VI: Interfaces of PPIs

Time Activity Responsible Title
09:00 - 10:00 Plenary Talk Norman Davey Discovery of transient protein-protein interactions
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break - -
10:30 - 11:30 Practical Scooter Morris Visualising complexes connected with XL-MS data using UCSF Chimera
11:30 - 12:10 Lecture Allegra Via PPI 3D complex prediction and interfaces (What we talk about when we talk about docking)
12:10 - 12:30 Lecture Lars Juhl Jensen Disease network mining
12:30 - 14:00 Practical Scooter Morris, Nadezhda Doncheva & Lars Juhl Jensen Network clustering and enrichment analyses in Cytoscape
14:00 - 15:00 Lunch break - -
15:00 - 16:00 Practical Scooter Morris & Nadezhda Doncheva Using Cytoscape to integrate protein complex data (CORUM, Complexes portal) into PPI networks
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break - -
16:30 - 17:30 Plenary talk Gianni Cesareni Investigating the protein interaction network supporting the skeletal muscle regeneration program
17:30 - 19:00 Practical session Hands-on session on the presented tools with the trainers Work on own/publicly available disease data
19:30 onwards Dinner - -

DAY 6 - Saturday 10 November 2018

Session VII: Hands-on sessions: Working with publicly available datasets

Time Activity Responsible Title
09:00 - 10:00 Practical session Miguel Andrade Exploring tools for modules that promote protein aggregation [Random UniprotId]
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break - -
10:30 - 12:00 Practical session Hands-on session on the presented tools with the trainers work on own/publicly available disease data
12:00 - 12:45 Summary Group Presentation Putting everything in perspective: Shared files for the group task
12:45 - 13:00 Final Q&A session and wrap-up - -
Time will be announced Dinner - -