Concurrent Session: Bioinformatics

Chair:
Deanna Church, NIH/NLM/NCBI

Location:
Salon E and F

Agenda:

7:00 p.m. – 7:20 p.m.

Inanc Birol, British Columbia Cancer Research
De Novo Assembly of Short Sequence Reads

7:20 p.m. – 7:40 p.m. 

Benjamin Blackburne, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
SSAHA_pileup: A Genome Variation Detection Pipeline for All Sequencing

7:40 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. 

Michael Stromberg, Boston College           
MOSAIK: A Reference Genome-Guided Assembler for Next-Generation Sequencing Platforms

8:00 p.m. – 8:20 p.m.

Alla Lapidus, DOE Joint Genome Institute
POLISHER: An Effective Tool for Using Ultra Short Reads in Microbial Genome Assembly and Finishing

8:20 p.m. – 8:40 p.m.   

Jared Maguire, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Better Quality Scoring for Data from New Sequencing Technologies

8:40 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. 

Noushin Farnoud, British Columbia Cancer Agency
DLOH: A Novel Bioinformatics Tool for Detection of Copy-Number Deletions Using LOH Data