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    Practical introduction to SPARQL for biologists and informaticians

    Lausanne, 8 November 2016

    Location: University of Lausanne, Génopode Building, room 2020

    This page is addressed to registered participants. To access the course description and the application form, please click here.

    For any assistance, please contact training@sib.swiss.

  • Prerequisites

    Knowledge / competencies:
    • To be familiar with UniProtKB and/or neXtProt is an advantage to better understand the use cases, but this is not mandatory
    • Limited experience with command line tools
    Technical:
    • Personal laptop with WIFI/internet access is needed
    • Java 1.7 or higher installed on your laptop. You can check the Java version by opening a command line tools and typing: java -version. If you don’t have Java installed please follow this link: https://java.com/en/download/help/index_installing.xml

  • Agenda

    09:00-10:30 Theoretical Introduction to SPARQL (Pierre-André Michel)
    10:30-11:00 Coffee break
    11:00-12:30 SPARQL playgrounds simple exercises (Daniel Teixeira)

    12:30-13:30 Lunch

    13:30-14:30 neXtProt exercises (Pierre-André Michel)
    14:30-15:30 UniProt exercises (Jerven Bolleman)
    15:30-16:00 Coffee break
    16:00-17:00 Federated queries with UniProt / neXtprot + discussion (all)