Virtual Bioinformatics Workshop ‒ 2025

Essentials in Bioinformatics

Workshop Overview: This online workshop is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to fundamental bioinformatics tools and databases essential for conducting research.

Target Audience: This workshop is tailored for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as young researchers who are new to bioinformatics and wish to acquire essential skills in utilizing bioinformatics tools and databases for their research projects.

Main Areas Covered:

• Biological databases & tools: Biological database searching (exploring NCBI & UniProt), DNA sequence analysis tools: similarity searching, sequence alignment, phylogenetic tree construction, primer designing, promoter analysis

Resource Person: Dr. Anushka Wickramasuriya, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Colombo

• Protein bioinformatics: Protein structure prediction, protein-protein interaction analysis

Resource Person: Dr. Pasan Fernando, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Colombo.

• Introduction to NGS analysis

Resource Person: Mr. Nilaksha Neththikumara, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo.

Duration: 20 h

Tentative Dates:

Course Fees:

• Early Registration: 6,500 LKR (on or before 31^st August 2025)
• Late Registration: 8,500 LKR

For Registration:

A certificate of participation will be awarded to those who fulfill 75% attendance