In addition to its internal consortium meetings, the ZF-MODELS project also hosts courses and meetings open to researchers outside the consortium; in particular, annual workshops that provide hands-on training to junior researchers, and satellite sessions at international conferences (e.g. the European Zebrafish Meetings) to discuss the results of the project.

This workshop is aimed at researchers at all levels and will focus on the use of web resources that have been developed in conjunction with the Zebrafish Genome Sequencing Project.

Lectures on a variety of topics, e.g. mapping the zebrafish genome, sequencing techniques and sequence analyses, as well as hands-on exercises to explore bioinformatics resources via the web and via self-written perl scripts have been included in the agenda, a preliminary version of which can be found under http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_rerio/zfm_workshop2007.shtml.

Please indicate your intention to attend and accommodation requirements to either Kerstin Howe at kj2@sanger.ac.uk or Sancha Martin at sd1@sanger.ac.uk by 23rd of March 2007. Where possible, please indicate whether (and to what level) the attendees are familiar with Perl scripting. Please cascade this message and the poster as appropriate.