Useful Information & Articles

Resources

PROSPECTR: Prospectr is an alternating decision tree which has been trained to differentiate between genes likely to be involved in disease and genes unlikely to be involved in disease…
SUSPECTS: SUSPECTS uses the sequence features and functional annotation of genes in regions of interest in complex disease to prioritize candidates for further study…

Researchers' Toolkit

This is a collection of articles giving advice on topics that are important for almost all scientists- writing grant applications, writing papers, and giving talks.

Writing grant applications

The Art of Grantsmanship by Jacob Kraicer, hosted by the Human Frontiers Organisation but of relevance to any grant application:
http://www.hfsp.org/how/ArtOfGrants.htm

How to Write a Research Grant Application- aimed at NIH grants but with valuable general advice too:
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/write_grant_doc.htm

Writing a Good Grant Proposal by Alan Bundy and Simon Peyton Jones. This is from Edinburgh, but is aimed at ESPRC applications. Again, it contains much of relevance to biologists:
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bundy/how-tos/rsg-how-to-get-funding.html

How Not to Kill a Grant Application by Vid Yohan-Ram. Very light-hearted and anecdotal, and therefore easy to read, albeit geared towards NIH applicants. Note that there are six parts.
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2000_01_07/noDOI.10400866310227203536

Writing papers

A very good article published in Nature, full of useful nuggets of advice:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7317/full/nj7317-873a.html

Giving talks

How to Give a Good Talk by Uri Alon, published in Molecular Cell:
http://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(09)00742-4?large_figure=true

A companion piece:

How to Give a Bad Talk by Deborah St James, published in Current Biology:
http://www.sciencedirect.com

Please let me know of any broken links, or additional pieces that could be added.

, November 2010

M.Sc./Diploma in Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis

Kathy Evans and Stewart Morris

Use of Computational Tools in Genetic Studies of Human Disease

These tutorials do not necessarily represent the way things are actually done but merely serve to illustrate a few of the web based resources which are available.

An archive of previous years is also available.

General interest Richard Adams

MSc Bioinformatics Perl Tutorial

The aim is to give you an idea of how Perl works, sufficient to aid you in bioinformatics tasks. Perl is an ideal language for data management in bioinformatics - it is easy to learn for biologists new to programming, yet is a rigourous enough language for the computer scientist...

Richard Adams

Seminars

Contact Details

Getting to the CMM

Useful Information & Articles

Writing grant applications

Writing papers

Giving talks

Use of Computational Tools in Genetic Studies of Human Disease

MSc Bioinformatics Perl Tutorial

MSc Bioinformatics Medical Genetics Tutorial

Tips for Effective Literature Searching

Effective use of Endnote

Poster Preparation

Archive PDFs

InDesign

Illustrator: produce a multipart figure

Photoshop: adding scale bars to fluorescent images

	Seminars Speaker: Professor Venki Ramakrishnan Title: Structural basis of decoding by the ribosome Time: 24^th May 2012, 1:00pm more info... Contact Details Centre for Molecular Medicine The University of Edinburgh Western General Hospital Crewe Road Edinburgh, EH4 2XU cmm-enquiries@lists.ed.ac.uk Getting to the CMM View Centre for Molecular Medicine in a larger map Map of the Western General	Useful Information & Articles Resources PROSPECTR: Prospectr is an alternating decision tree which has been trained to differentiate between genes likely to be involved in disease and genes unlikely to be involved in disease… SUSPECTS: SUSPECTS uses the sequence features and functional annotation of genes in regions of interest in complex disease to prioritize candidates for further study… Researchers' Toolkit This is a collection of articles giving advice on topics that are important for almost all scientists- writing grant applications, writing papers, and giving talks. Writing grant applications The Art of Grantsmanship by Jacob Kraicer, hosted by the Human Frontiers Organisation but of relevance to any grant application: http://www.hfsp.org/how/ArtOfGrants.htm How to Write a Research Grant Application- aimed at NIH grants but with valuable general advice too: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/funding/write_grant_doc.htm Writing a Good Grant Proposal by Alan Bundy and Simon Peyton Jones. This is from Edinburgh, but is aimed at ESPRC applications. Again, it contains much of relevance to biologists: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/bundy/how-tos/rsg-how-to-get-funding.html How Not to Kill a Grant Application by Vid Yohan-Ram. Very light-hearted and anecdotal, and therefore easy to read, albeit geared towards NIH applicants. Note that there are six parts. http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2000_01_07/noDOI.10400866310227203536 Writing papers A very good article published in Nature, full of useful nuggets of advice: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7317/full/nj7317-873a.html Giving talks How to Give a Good Talk by Uri Alon, published in Molecular Cell: http://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(09)00742-4?large_figure=true A companion piece: How to Give a Bad Talk by Deborah St James, published in Current Biology: http://www.sciencedirect.com Please let me know of any broken links, or additional pieces that could be added. , November 2010 M.Sc./Diploma in Quantitative Genetics and Genome Analysis Kathy Evans and Stewart Morris Use of Computational Tools in Genetic Studies of Human Disease These tutorials do not necessarily represent the way things are actually done but merely serve to illustrate a few of the web based resources which are available. An archive of previous years is also available. General interest Richard Adams MSc Bioinformatics Perl Tutorial The aim is to give you an idea of how Perl works, sufficient to aid you in bioinformatics tasks. Perl is an ideal language for data management in bioinformatics - it is easy to learn for biologists new to programming, yet is a rigourous enough language for the computer scientist... Richard Adams MSc Bioinformatics Medical Genetics Tutorial This is the powerpoint presentation lecture given to bioinformatics MSc students on 2^nd December 2005 Cathy Abbott Tips for Effective Literature Searching I have put this page together in response to problems I see many students having with effective literature searching. It's not intended to be comprehensive, just some pointers I have found useful... Simon Cooper Effective use of Endnote Simon Cooper Poster Preparation Poster preparation using Microsoft Powerpoint including templates. Simon Cooper Archive PDFs I have setup a few different pdf archives on the staff intranet and this tutorial will be useful if you wish to update these or start your own library... Simon Cooper InDesign The basics of how to edit a leaflet using Adobe InDesign... Simon Cooper Illustrator: produce a multipart figure This tutorial is intended to help users produce a multipart figure using Adobe Illustrator... Simon Cooper Photoshop: adding scale bars to fluorescent images This tutorial is intended to help users produce a multipart figure using Adobe Illustrator...
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