Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis
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When?
15-16 November 2018
Where?
West University, Timișoara, Romania
Organisers
RSBI (@RoBioinfo), Politehnica University of Timișoara, and West University Timișoara
Registration
A registration fee of 40 euros is required from academia participants to cover meals and dinner. Bursaries are available (up to 10 places; with 50% reduction or full fee exemption), and are awarded on merit and motivation. Mention in the registration form if you intend to apply for it.
Industry participants registration fee is 140 euros.
Requirements
A fundamental understanding of Molecular Biology and basic knowledge of Statistics, Unix command line, R and/or Python are assumed. Suggested resources:
- Unix: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
- Perl: https://learn.perl.org/books/beginning-perl/
- Python: https://thepythonguru.com/
Speakers
The list of confirmed speakers and trainers is:
- Viorica Chelban (University College London, Institute of Neurology, UK)
- Hugues Richard (Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France)
- Petr Daněček (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
- Valeriu Ohan (Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK)
- Aleksandra Świercz (University of Technology, Poznan, Poland)
- Bogdan Mirăuță (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK)
Schedule
Day 1 (DNA Sequencing)
| Time | Subject | Trainer/Speaker |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Introduction to NGS | Hugues Richard |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | (Theory) File formats, QC | Petr Daněček |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | (Hands-on) File formats, QC | Petr Daněček, Valeriu Ohan |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | (Theory) Alignment |
Petr Daněček |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | (Hand-on) Alignment | Petr Daněček, Valeriu Ohan |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | (Theory + Hand-on) Variant Calling | Petr Daněček, Valeriu Ohan |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Talk | Viorica Chelban |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | (Theory + Hand-on) Genome Assembly | Aleksandra Świercz |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Talk: The pros and cons of writing code for academic research | Valeriu Ohan |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
Day 2: RNA Sequencing
| Time | Subject | Trainer/Speaker |
| 9:30 – 12:00 | RNA-Seq: QC, Mapping and Differential Expression Analysis. | Hugues Richard |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Talk: RNA-Seq, CLIP-Seq and Alternative splicing | Hugues Richard |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Talk: Single-cell RNA sequencing | Bogdan Mirăuță |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Coffee break | |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | Talk: Sequencing with long read technologies (Oxford Nanopore and Pacific Biosciences) |
Aleksandra Świercz |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Talk: New kids on the block: 10x Genomics, Dovetail Genomics, Optical maps | Petr Daněček |
| 15:20 – 15:50 | Coffee break | |
| 15:50 – 16:30 | Panel Discussion | All speakers and trainers |
Organising committee
- Monica Abrudan (Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK)
- Irina Armean (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK)
- Bogdan Mirauță (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK)
- Daniela Zaharie (West University, Timișoara, Romania)
- Cristian Zimbru (Politehnica University, Timișoara, Romania)
Sponsors
EURO Working Group on the Operational Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine (EWG CBBM)
Research Institute e-Austria, Timisoara, Romania
Contact
For any queries, please contact us.
Cover photo by: padurariu adrian 1, CC BY 3.0
