This workshop was the first international course in automated functional annotation and data mining.

The course tought participants the principals and practical aspects of automated functional annotation of (novel) sequence data making use of the bioinformatics suite Blast2GO. Participants learned the necessary know-how for the generation of functional labels for sequence data, design annotation strategies and generate different annotation types as well as evaluate and report the results of the functional annotation pipeline and perform data-mining and knowledge discovery combining functional annotations and experimental data.