| RECOMB Satellite Meeting in DNA Sequencing Technologies and Computation | |
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United States - CA - Stanford |
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| Hosted by: | Stanford University |
| Venue: | Stanford University |
| Dates: | May 22, 2004 through May 23, 2004 |
| Call for Proceedings Presentations: | 2004-01-01 through 2004-04-04 |
| Call for Posters: | 2004-01-01 through 2004-04-04 |
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| Dear Colleagues, The fourth annual RECOMB Satellite meeting on DNA Sequencing Technologies and Computation will take place on May 22-23, at Stanford University. This year we will have another exciting, focussed meeting, with emphasis on new sequencing technologies and on the future of sequencing efforts. Confirmed speakers include Robert Waterston (Washington University School of Medicine), Jeff Schloss (NIH), Bjorn Andersson (Chalmers University of Technology, Lene V. Hau (Harvard University), Tony Smith (Solexa), Jonathan Rothberg (454), Mostafa Ronaghi (Stanford Genome Technology Center), Paul Havlak (Baylor College of Medicine), Serafim Batzoglou (Stanford University), James Galagan (Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research). CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Fourth Annual RECOMB Satellite meeting on DNA Sequencing Technologies and Computation May 22-23, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Genome sequencing has been truly flourishing the past several years. Recent achievements include the completion of the human, mouse, rat, fugu, mosquito, malaria, and several other genomes. April 2003 marked the completion of the finished version of the human genome. The recent sequencing achievements have been possible because of advances in both lab techniques, and computational methods and capabilities. Notably, computational assembly has been an essential part of sequencing since the conception of the sequencing technology, and recent advances to computational assembly systems and algorithms were instrumental in recent sequencing successes. Despite the success of recent sequencing projects, genome sequencing is still extremely costly, time-consuming, and error-prone. Some efforts in making sequencing vastly easier, potentially reducing time and cost by several orders of magnitude are starting to emerge. Novel sequencing methods hold great potential for the future, and developing such technologies will be a focus of NIH for the next 5 to 10 years. The ultimate goal is to sequence or re-sequence a mammalian-size genome for as little as $1,000. Once the genome is at hand, the next step is analysis. The first steps in analyzing genomes are to annotate genes, common repeats, and other biologically important elements, and to compare genomes of related organisms. High-throughput pipelines and servers for that purpose are instrumental to making the genomic data useful to the research community. The purpose of this meeting is to bring together many of the people working on algorithms and software for large-scale sequencing and analysis of genomes, and novel technologies for genome determination. The main themes will be: . Whole Genome Sequencing and Assembly. . New and exotic sequencing technologies. . Whole-genome analysis. Topics of interest include: whole-genome sequencing and assembly, novel sequencing technologies and the computational assembly problems they motivate, improved methods for sequencing and finishing, comparison and reconciliation of whole genome assemblies, high-throughput experimental techniques for genome analysis, pipelines for whole-genome annotation, comparison, and analysis. Successful submissions will be invited for a 15-minute presentation, and a 1-2 page abstract will be printed on the conference proceedings, to be distributed to the meeting attendees. Abstracts should be 1 to 2 pages, and submitted in plain text or WORD format. Abstract Submission Deadline: April 4; Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2004. http://recomb-satellite.stanford.edu/ |
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| Event URL: | http://recomb-satellite.stanford.edu |
| ISCB Member Discount: | None |
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