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Early Registration for The Next NGS Challenge Ends Friday, March 22!

Get Your Discount and Register Now!


The Next NGS Challenge will bring together computational biologists and bioinformaticians to discuss new challenges on high-throughput sequencing and new trends in NGS-based genome research.

The conference will be held in Valencia, Spain, on May 14-16, 2013.  

There will be keynote lectures, oral presentations and poster sessions, and will be preceded by an EMBnet Workshop on data analysis.

We are proud to announce the participation of the following keynote speakers:

  • Ivo Gut, National Centre for Genome Analysis (CNAG), Barcelona, Spain
  • Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipig, Germany.
  • Leif Andersson, Uppsala University, Sweden.


The Next NGS Challenge is a joint event of the EU COST Action SeqAhead, the EMBnet, the International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) and the 7FP Project STATegra.

You can find further information at the Conference site: www.thenextngschallenge.org/.

Register now to receive a discount and secure your participation in this exciting discussion.  We look forward to seeing you in Spain!

Ana Conesa, CIPF (Spain)

Chair,  The Next NGS Conference 2013