Registration is required for most BCF events and for BCF education and training offerings. Information such as fees and other requirements will be posted at the event web site.

The BCF offers a variety of hands on workshops and short courses in bioinformatics and data analysis topics. For scheduling and additional information, please visit the Biotechnology Education and Training Program page.

• Easy to follow resource tutorials
• UNIX, Perl, and BioPERL Scripting workshops and courses
• Introduction to BLAST and BLAST Tools Workshops
• Hosting of NCBI Field Guide Courses with NCBI's support
• Training sessions to use the GCG, Faktory, R/Bioconductor and Affymetrix software packages are offered on a demand basis
• MySQL Data Warehousing instruction
• We organize bioinformatics symposia and Seminar Series in Computing
• Listservs for on campus Bioinformatics software developers, Microarray analysis and other special topics