July 23-26, 2012: The 2012 DBW builds upon the success of eight previous years of Duke Bioinformatics workshops that have trained over 340 researchers in the use of publicly available bioinformatic data. This year's workshop includes new databases and experimental platforms that reflect advances in technological and scientific fields of research. The course is a 4-day workshop (July 23rd - 26th) that introduces new technologies and databases and has in-depth coverage of genome browsers, comparative sequence analysis, microarray platforms, proteomics and applications of next-generation sequencing platforms.