Schedule

Time Activity Details Resource Person
DAY 0: Monday, July 6 — Arrival & Setup
13:00 - 17:00 Arrival & Pre-workshop Technical Setup at Sam-Arng Room, SEARCA Account verification and software check Tech Team
DAY 1: Tuesday, July 7 — Ensembl
08:30 - 08:45 Arrival & Tech Help - Training Team
08:45 - 09:15 Opening Program Welcome and Overview Organizers
09:15 - 10:00 Lecture 1: Bioinformatics Overview Biological datasets (generation, management) Victor Jun Ulat
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 - 11:30 Lecture 2: The Ensembl Data Platform Foundation and context, Intro to genomic resources (focusing on EMBL-EBI resources), the Ensembl project and genome assemblies, followed by an Ensembl website demonstration. Louisse Paola Mirabueno
11:30 - 12:00 Hands-on: Exploring Ensembl Practical: Navigating Ensembl and finding genome assembly information Louisse + Assistants
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:30 Lecture 3: Genomic annotation Exploring the available genomic data in Ensembl and how to interpret them Louisse Paola Mirabueno
14:30 - 15:45 Hands-on: Exporting Ensembl data Practical: Finding genomic data and associated information Louisse + Assistants
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45 Integrated Practice Practical: Exporting sequences from Ensembl for Galaxy Louisse + Assistants
16:45 - 17:00 Day 1 Wrap-up Key takeaways Louisse Paola Mirabueno
DAY 2: Wednesday, July 8 — Galaxy Workbench
08:30 - 09:00 Review & Q&A Address challenges Louisse Paola Mirabueno
09:00 - 10:30 Lecture: Introduction to Galaxy and Hands-on Galaxy is a web-based computational workbench that analyze datasets through accessible, reproducible bioinformatics workflows without requiring command-line expertise. Riza May Pasco
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Exercise: Galaxy Basics Exploring and navigating the Galaxy Workbench Riza May Pasco
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 15:15 Lecture: Sequence Characterization Concepts Frances Nikki Borja
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:45 Hands-on: Galaxy Analyses Doing Various Analyses in Galaxy Frances Nikki Borja + Assistants
16:45 - 17:00 Day 2 Wrap-up Review data flow Frances Nikki Borja + Assistants
DAY 3: Thursday, July 9 — AI
08:30 - 09:00 Review and Q & A Day 2 Review Training Team
09:00 - 09:45 Lecture: Introduction to AI and Prompt Engineering Concepts of AI and Applications of Prompt Engineering Jeffrey Detras
09:45 - 10:15 Lecture: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Identifying hallucinations and using RAG to fix it Lord Hendrix Barboza
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:15 Hands-on: Prompt Engineering Prompt Engineering using Gemini Jeffrey Detras + Assistants
11:15 - 12:00 Hands-on: RAG using NotebookLM NotebookLM as a RAG tool Lord Hendrix Barboza + Assistants
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 13:15 Lecture: AI clients vs genomic databases The impact of AI clients on genomic resources Louisse Paola Mirabueno
13:15 - 14:30 Hands-on: AI for Galaxy Use AI as reference or interpretation of Data; troubleshoot; LLM hub in galaxy Riza May Pasco + Assistants
14:30 - 15:45 AI Challenge All
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45 Group Presentations 5 min + 2 min Q&A each All
16:45 - 17:00 Day 3 Wrap-up AI as complement Jeffrey Detras
DAY 4: Friday, July 10 — Integration
08:30 - 09:00 Integration project Group projects Frances Nikki Borja
09:00 - 10:30 Group work Groups
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:00 Group work Groups
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00 Finalization of Group work Groups
14:00 - 15:15 Final Presentations 5-7 min + 2 min Q&A + 1min setup All
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00 Course Wrap-up Resources, Careers and Feedback Organizers
16:00 - 17:00 Closing Program Certificate Distribution, Networking Organizers