Dear colleagues,

Following-up our successful topical seminar series on Machine Learning organised last year in the context of Driven by Data, the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center is happy to inform you that a mini-symposium on "Algorithms for Genome Assembly" will be held on Tuesday September 24 (13:30-17:30, Minnaert building room 4.16). Registration is free but mandatory due to the limited capacity of the room!

Program:

13:30-14:00 Welcome with coffee/tea

14:00-14:30 Jens Stoye - Finding all maximal perfect haplotype blocks in linear time

14:30-15:00 Rayan Chikhi - Is de novo assembly a solved problem with long reads, yet?

15:00-15:30 Paola Bonizzoni - MALVA: Genotyping by Mapping-free Allele Detection of Known Variants

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-16:30 Paul Medvedev - De novo transcriptome reconstruction from long reads

16:30-17:00 Jasmijn Baaijens - De novo approaches to haplotype-aware genome assembly

17:00-17:30 Closing & drinks

Best regards,

Adrien Melquiond, coordinator Utrecht Bioinformatics Center