Dear All,

We are pleased to announce the next SIB Bioinformatics Workshop entitled: “De novo genome assembly – 2011”.

Next generation Sequencing technologies deliver huge amounts of short sequences for a relative low price. The data is frequently of low quality (noise and artifacts) and must be cleaned before usage; the assembly steps are often difficult due to the nature of the sequences (repeats, GC content), the quality of the tools and can be very different with a reference (by mapping) or without a reference (de novo). The final results must be evaluated with various criteria. The aim of the course are: (i) learn how to measure the quality of the data, clean and extract the good information (ii) learn to assemble a genome de novo (without a reference) (e.g., SOAPdenovo, ABySS, Velvet).

Please note that participants are required to have basic understanding of working with UNIX command line tools on Linux or MacOSX

The program and registration pages are available at: http://edu.isb-sib.ch/course/view.php?id=91

Please note : the course is already full. If you were interested but could not register, let us know by email, to help us decid if/when we should organize the same course again.

Hope to see you there !
Laurent Falquet

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Dr. Laurent Falquet
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Vital-IT
Génopode, UNIL
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Tel: +41 21 692 4078
Fax: +41 21 692 4065
Email: Laurent.Falquet@isb-sib.ch
http://www.isb-sib.ch
http://www.vital-it.ch