PROGRAM SCHEDULE
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| MONDAY, 4 APRIL | ||
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| 08:00 | 08:30 | Registration |
| 08:30 | 09:00 | Opening by Jen HARROW (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute), Cedric NOTREDAME (CRG) and Alfonso VALENCIA (ISCB) |
| 09:00 | 09:45 | Keynote Erik KARSENTI European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg DE TARA OCEANS: Characterization of global oceans plankton ecosystems |
| 09:45 | 10:15 | Coffee Break |
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| Session 1: Genomics (chair: Henrik Lantz, ELIXIR) |
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| 10:15 | 10:30 | OP1 Genome of the bulb mite - the model organism in studies on sexual selection and the plants pest Mateusz KONCZAL, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona ES |
| 10:30 | 10:45 | OP2 White Tailed Deer Genome Assembly Bradley W. LANGHORST, New England Biolabs USA |
| 10:45 | 11:00 | OP3 Genomic profiling and annotation of the boar’s mature sperm transcriptome Marta GÒDIA, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Barcelona ES University of Barcelona ES |
| 11:00 | 11:15 | OP4 Analysing the genome diversity of the bucardo, an extinct subspecies of the Spanish wild goat (Capra pyrenaica) Rayner GONZÁLEZ-PRENDES, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Campus Autonoma Univ |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | OP5 A draft genome sequence for the Egyptian fruit bat, the reservoir host for Marburg virus Stephanie D'SOUZA, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Microbiology USA |
| 11:30 | 11:45 | OP6 Improving the human and mouse GENCODE gene catalogue with NGS technology Jose Manuel GONZÁLEZ, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute UK |
| 12:05 | 13:30 | Tech Talk 1: Make Big Data an Asset not a Burden Wolfgang MERTZ, CTO Life Sciences and Healthcare, EMC Isilon Systems Division |
| 12:05 | 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | 13:35 | Introduction by Jennifer HARROW (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) |
| 13:35 | 14:20 | Keynote Suzanna E. LEWIS, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley USA Genomic surprises: Always Be Ready |
| Session 2: Transcriptomics and Epigenetics (chair: Stephan Ossowski, CRG) |
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| 14:20 | 14:35 | OP7 Refining and Extending GENCODE Long Noncoding RNA Annotations Using RNA Capture Coupled to Third Generation Sequencing Rory JOHNSON, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona ES |
| 14:35 | 14:55 | OP8 Finding structural RNAs in NGS data using read block alignment followed by structural alignment Jakob HULL HAVGAARD, University of Copenhagen DK |
| 14:55 | 15:10 | OP9 Long-non coding RNAs repertoire in liver and adipose tissue in chicken Kevin MURET, Agrocampus Ouest - INRA FR |
| 15:10 | 15:25 | OP10 Annotation and differential analysis of splicing events using assembly-first and mapping-first approaches Clara BENOIT-PILVEN, LBMC - ENS Lyon FR |
| 15:25 | 15:45 | Tech Talk 2: QIAGEN Sample to Insight: An introduction to the QIAGEN Bioinformatics Solutions Elodie DUBUS, Ph.D |
| 15:45 | 16:15 | Coffee break |
| 16:15 | 16:30 | OP11 Genome-wide prediction of active regulatory elements and their directionality using peak-valley-peak histone modification patterns Sachin PUNDHIR, Finsen laboratory and BRIC, University of Copenhagen DK |
| 16:30 | 16:45 | OP12 Investigating the nuclear spatial conformation of livestock genomes using Hi-C Sylvain FOISSAC, INRA-GenPhySE FR |
| 16:45 | 17:05 | Tech Talk 3: Atos as a Global IT partner for Genomics projects Josema CAVANILLAS, Big Data and Security head, Atos Iberia Natalia JIMENEZ, Life Sciences Business Development Manager, Atos |
| 17:05 | 17:10 | Introduction of Keynote Speakers - TBD |
| 17:10 | 17:55 | Keynote Dave BURT, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, Scotland UK Annotation of the chicken and other avian genomes |
| 18:30 | 20:00 | Networking and Poster Presentations |
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| TUESDAY, 5 APRIL | ||
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| 08:45 | 09:00 | Morning welcome and Introduction by Jan GORODKIN, Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, Copenhagen DK |
| 09:00 | 09:45 | Keynote Peter STADLER, Dept. of Computer Science & Interdisciplinary Center of Bioinformatics, Leipzig University, Leipzig DE The Interplay of Methylome and Transcriptome - Computational Techniques and Surprising Findings |
| 09:45 | 10:05 | Tech Talk 4: End-to-End RNA-Seq Solutions for Discovery Aida SOLER, Marketing Technical Specialist, ILLUMINA |
| Session 3: Clinical Annotation (chair: Roderic Guigó, CRG) |
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| 10:30 | 10:45 | OP13 MyVariant.info: community-aggregated variant annotations as a service Jiwen XIN, The Scripps Research Institute USA |
| 10:45 | 11:00 | OP14 (and Tech Talk) Accurate and rapid clinical Whole-Genome Sequence (WGS) interpretation with VAAST and PHEVOR using Omicia for the UK’s 100,000 Genome Project Martin REESE, Omicia Inc. USA |
| 11:00 | 11:15 | OP15 Study the false variants in high throughput DNA sequencing data Yingxue REN, Mayo Clinic USA |
| 11:15 | 11:30 | OP16 New fusions transcripts discoveries in acute myeloid leukemia: from software to biological validation Thérèse COMMES, Université de Montpellier FR |
| 11:30 | 11:45 | OP17 Pan-Cancer Identification and Prioritization of Cancer-Associated Alternatively Spliced and Differentially Expressed Genes: A Biomarker Discovery Application Daryanaz DARGAHI, Genome Sciences Center, BC Cancer Agency CA |
| 11:45 | 12:00 | OP18 Species-independent identification of known and novel recurrent genomic entities in multiple cancer patients Jose Mg IZARZUGAZA, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis DK |
| 12:00 | 12:20 | Tech Talk 5: Managing SW-Dependencies with Docker Containers for Large-Scale Bio-Technology Workloads Fritz FERSTL, CTO, Univa |
| Session 4: Methods (chair: Alfonso Valencia, ISCB) |
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| 14:00 | 14:15 | OP19 NET-GE: a web-server for linking protein variations to biological processes and pathways Pier Luigi MARTELLI, University of Bologna IT |
| 14:15 | 14:30 | OP20 Oxford Nanopore sequencing of RNA and error-correction Corinne Da SILVA, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA), Institut de Génomique (IG), Genoscope FR |
| 14:30 | 14:45 | OP21 An integrative approach for improved transcript reconstruction David SWARBECK and The Genome Analysis Centre |
| 14:45 | 15:00 | OP22 Redesigning the Ensembl Gene Annotation System Fergal MARTIN, EMBL-EBI UK |
| 15:00 | 15:15 | OP23 Nextflow: a tool for easy, reproducible and portable deployment of NGS analysis workflows Maria CHATZOU, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona ES |
| 15:15 | 15:30 | OP24 The RAPI Read Aligner API Luca PIREDDU, Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia IT |
| 15:30 | 15:45 | OP25 Optimal marker gene alignment at the speed of heuristic aligners Gabriel AL-GHALITH, University of Minnesota USA |
| 15:45 | 16:15 | Coffee Break |
| 16:15 | 16:20 | Introduction by Roderic GUIGÓ (CRG) |
| 16:20 | 17:05 | Keynote Rachel KARCHIN, The William R. Brody Faculty, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore USA CRAVAT 4.0: informatics tools for high-throughput analysis of exome variants |
| 17:05 | 17:35 | Awards and closing remarks |
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| WEDNESDAY, 6 APRIL | ||
POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOP09:00 - 18:00Reproducible genomic data analysis using short and long-read RNAseq data |
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