| Workshop on RNA-Seq & Strategy Session on Joint grant proposals | |
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Austria - Vienna |
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| Hosted by: | European Science Foundation – COST action StatSeq |
| Venue: | Boku University Vienna |
| Dates: | Mar 24, 2011 through Mar 26, 2011 |
| Call for Proceedings Presentations: | 2011-01-01 through 2011-03-13 |
| Call for Posters: | 2011-01-01 through 2011-03-17 |
| Travel Fund Apps: | 2011-01-01 through 2011-03-13 |
| Event Registration: | 2011-01-01 through 2011-03-22 |
| Early Registration Deadline: | 2011-03-11 |
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Description |
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| The ESF ‘StatSeq’ COST action on the statistical challenges from next-generation sequencing organizes a meeting in Vienna including a workhop on RNA-Seq (24 and 25 March) and a strategy session for identifying opportunities for collaboration and applications for joint funding (26 March). You are cordially invited! The Call for contributed talks and posters is currently open! Note that we can offer up to five ESF bursaries covering travel and accommodation for selected speakers. There will also be a number of invited talks, with past workshops featuring well known scientists like Magnus Nordborg (Gregor-Mendel Institute of the Austrian Academy), Gunnar Rätsch (Max-Planck-Institute, Thübingen), and Paul Kersey (EMBL–EBI, Cambridge). Update: Currently confirmed keynote speakers: 1) José Jiménéz-Gomez, Max-Planck-Institute Köln José has been an early adopter of RNA-Seq for the study of polymorphisms and expression profiles in tomato and its wild relatives. His research group is interested in the natural variation, evolution, and domestication of plants. 2) Hannes Ponstingl, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge Hannes researches modern algorithms for short read alignment, which lie at the core of RNA-Seq data analysis. He has lead the development of SMALT and has made major contributions to SSAHA2. These tools are now widely used in next-generation sequencing applications from RNA-Seq to genomic-resequencing. 3) Michael Sammeth, Centre Nacional d’Anàlisi Genòmica, Barcelona In the Flux Project, Micha has developed an approach for capturing the individual steps of the complete RNA-Seq process. This allows modelling the impact of each step on the measurement characteristics. Workshop focus and topics for Discussion: What have we learnt from applying RNA-Seq to complex tissues / organisms with rich transcriptomes such as mammals or plants? * Novel biological insights * Current experimental challenges * Recent advances in computational analysis (processing, identifying biologically relevant signals, statistics, ...) * Current computational challenges What have we learnt from calibrating and validating RNA-Seq? * Recent methodological advances * Benchmarks and comparisons (variant protocols or relative to other technologies) * Current methodological challenges * Recent advances in computational analysis (processing, bias removal, calibration, ...) * Current computational challenges |
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| Additional Information | |
| Event URL: | http://bioinf.boku.ac.at/statseq/ |
| ISCB Member Discount: | None |
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