"Building Next Generation Sequencing platforms and pipeline solutions"

EMBRACE (EU FP6 NoE), UPPMAX (Uppsala, Sweden) and CASPUR (Rome, Italy) with the support of the Italian Society of Bioinformatics will organize a workshop focused on "Building Next Generation Sequencing platforms and pipeline solutions".The workshop will take place in Rome on November 18-20, 20The workshop is limited to 30 participants!The workshop is aimed at bioinformaticians interested in discussing issues related to the management of platforms and analysis of next-generation sequencing data. The workshop will include a "Hack-a-ton" session and lectures by experts from relevant fields. Topics covered will include storage facilities for sequencing raw data, tools for genome mapping of sequence reads, sequence reads assembly and contig generation, gene calling of mapped reads for digital analysis of gene expression and identification of structural genome variants by using long paired-end sequencing and tools for annotation.For further information see http://www.nextgensequencing.org/See you hopefully in RomeThe organizing committee