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This page includes supplementary information for the Canadian Bioinformatics Workshop [http://bioinformatics.ca/workshops/beyond Interpreting Gene Lists from Omics Studies]

== Module 1 - Introduction to Gene Lists ==

 * Lab gene list file: attachment:module1YeastGenes.txt
 * Lab URLs:
  * Synergizer - http://llama.med.harvard.edu/cgi/synergizer/translate
  * Ensembl !BioMart - http://www.ensembl.org/index.html
 * Questions:
  * Synergizer
   * How many genes could be converted to Entrez Gene?
   * How many genes could not?
   * How many genes were not recognized?
   * Could you find conversions elsewhere?  (hint: try the Entrez Gene web site)
   * Why could YDL023C not be converted to Entrez Gene?
   * Why was YER056CA not recognized?
   * How many genes had multiple Entrez Gene IDs?  Why?
  * !BioMart
   * How many Entrez Gene IDs did you input?
   * How many Ensembl genes did you get back?
   * How many GO annotations did you retrieve?
   * What was the most frequent GO term?
   * What was the most frequent evidence code?

Finished early?
 * Try gathering additional data from BioMart
 * Have you tried to collect data for your own gene list?

Additional resources
 * Challenging ID mapping problems, like having ID lists for multiple species, may require use of multiple ID mapping services to solve. Additional ID mapping services are linked to from http://baderlab.org/IdentifierMapping