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Finishing in the Future 2008(Completed)
Areas emphasized at this conference included:
Keynote speakers
- Sydney Brenner, 2002 Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine, Founder of the Molecular Sciences Institute, and Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Crick-Jacobs Center, Salk Institute
- Bruce Birren, Director of the Microbial Sequencing Center and Co-Director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Broad Institute
- Deanna Church, Coordinator for the Mouse and Human Genome Resources and Trace Archive, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Genome Sequencing:
- Draft sequencing, assembly and quality assessment
- Metagenomic sequencing strategies
- New sequencing technologies (454, Solexa, SOLiD, Helicos, etc.)
Genome Finishing and Analysis:
- Finishing systems and pipelines (automated, manual, etc.)
- Using new sequencing technology (454, Solexa, etc.) data
- Comparative genomics, Resequencing, SNPs
- Structural variation
- Metagenomics
- Genome annotation
Bioinformatics:
- Whole genome assemblers, New sequence alignment tools
- Using near neighbor genome data for finishing, Genome annotation for finishing
- Integrating Sanger & 454 genome assemblies, De novo assemblers for short reads
- New basecallers and standardization of qualities
- Metagenomic assemblies and analysis
- Finishing quality standards for new technology or mixed data sets
2008 Meeting
- 2008 Meeting Guide (pdf)
- Presentations
- Posters
- Schedule (pdf)
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