Supercomputing and Next Generation Sequencing (2011)
The RES (Spanish Supercomputing Network), coordinated by BSC-CNS, organized, in collaboration with UMA (Málaga University), the RES Supercomputing and Scientific Seminar of Next Generation Sequencing that was held 17 & 18 March, 2011.
More than 70 attendants and the need of two rooms to allocate all them proved the need of such a seminar in our country and the quality of the scientific discussion provided.
The objective of this seminar was showing researchers the computational problems involved the analysis of the readings taken with the new sequencing technologies, as well as some of the solutions already available. Because the two problems (the sheer volume of data and the shortness of the sequences), was addressed how they are bypassing these problems in the use of NGS for the quantification of gene expression, the quality of the results, the assembly sequences, visualization and storage. To achieve this objective, renowned scientists and researchers shared with the attendants their findings at developed projects and studies.
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1st Day of seminar
13.30h - Welcome Pack available to attendants
15.00h - Opening and welcome
15.15h - The Spanish Supercomputing Network (Montserrat González, BSC-CNS)
15.45h - High performance sequencing and gene expression quantification
(Ana Conesa, CIPF)
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16.30h - Discussion time
16.45h - Coffee break
17.15h - Genomics for the regulation of cancer (David Torrents, BSC-CNS)
18.00h - Discussion time
18.15h - Next-Generation Sequencing of Complex Plant Genomes: Lessons Learned
from Tomato and Potato (Erwin Datema, WUR)
19.00h - Discussion time
19.15h - SCBI: Supercomputing and Bioinformatics (M. Gonzalo Claros, UMA)
19.45h - End of the first day of the seminar
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2nd Day of seminar
09.00h - Parallelize the NGS_backbone and distribution of parallel jobs (José Blanca,
COMAV)
09.45h - Discussion time
10.00h - Need and current solutions for deploying amplicon studies
(Francisco Codoñer, UV)
10.45h - Discussion time
11.00h - Coffee break
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11.30h - Supercomputing challenges of CABOG and its use for mixed assembly of NGS
(Jason R. Miller, Craig Venter Institute)
12.15h - Discussion time
12.30h - SeqTrimNext: preprocessing for NGS reading (Darío Guerrero, SCBI-UMA)
13.15h - Discussion time
13.30h - Closing
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13.40h - Visit to Pablo Picasso Supercomputer
Find here the agenda in pdf format: Next Gen Sequencing Agenda
Please contact with trainings-res
bsc [dot] es in case you require further information.
The seminar was aimed at all the RES users, researchers and students interested in Next Generation Sequencing and the opportunity that Supercomputing offers to this concrete research field. It was mainly conducted in English.
