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Long-read sequencing offers new opportunities for assembling genomes, characterizing microbiomes, identifying structural variants and RNA isoforms, and phasing critical variants.
This four-day workshop will explore long-read sequencing technologies and will provide a forum for scientist studying technology, software, applications, and clinical research to network and learn from each other.
Participants will learn about the technology and molecular biology driving each long-read sequencing platform, their commonalities and differences, and hear about their applications to basic, translational, and clinical genomics.
Themes Include:
- Structural variant detection
- Genome assembly
- Resolving complex regions of the genome
- Transcriptomics
- Epigenomics
- Understanding disease
- Clinical Applications
- Applications to non-human mammals and plants
- Microbiome and metagenomics
- and more!
In addition to two full days of presentations, participants will learn practical skills from two full days of hands-on bioinformatics and laboratory-based tutorials. This course will include the opportunity to submit an abstract for a poster session or short talk. The abstract submission deadline is Sunday, April 26th.
The workshop is appropriate for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and other scientists or clinicians interested in long-read sequencing.
The 2020 course schedule is still under construction. Please view the 2019 schedule linked below for an idea of course content. The first day of the 2020 course will be Tuesday, June 23rd with an optional hands-on wet lab and the last day will be Friday, June 26th with an optional hands-on dry lab. The main event lectures will take place on June 24-25th.
