Bioinformatics after Next Generation Sequencing
This workshop is an event of the France-Russia year.
Venue: RUSSIA, Zvenigorodsky Resort
Date: June 15-17, 2010
The workshop is supported by:
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News
[update] Updated workshop programme is available online.
[announcement] The organization committee shall organize a shuttle bus to Zvenigorod on June 14 at 16:00 from Kuntsevskaya subway station.
[announcement] The organization committee shall organize collecting of French guests arriving with Air France air flight AF 2044 (departing 11:45 from Paris CDG and coming to Moscow SVO at 17:20), and their transportation to Zvenigorod with a shuttle bus.
[announcement] Those who need the Russian visa please find the form here. Don't forget to attach a scan of your passport with a photo. Contact e-mail is listed at the bottom of the page.
Summary
The focuses of the proposed seminar are the issues of computational molecular biology brought into existence by the fast development of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). The competing technologies associated with NGS each promise dramatic breakthroughs in both biology and medicine. Currently, one of the main bottlenecks in NGS applications is the computational analysis of experimental data. The sheer amount of this data as well as the high throughput of the experimental dataflow represent a serious challenge to hardware and especially software, beyond the practical capacity of most algorithms commonly used in bioinformatics. This is further complicated by the sequencing errors to which these technologies are prone, which are of different types for each technology. These methodological difficulties are aggravated by poor communication between the specialists in biology or medicine who formulate the problems, the bioinformaticians performing the data handling and analysis, and the system biologists who use the analyzed data to create models of the pertinent biological processes. In addition, the education of a younger generation of scientists is lagging behind these fast-evolving technologies. The goal of the proposed seminar is to bring together key persons in population genetics and systems biology who use NGS methods, bioinformaticians working directly with NGS data, and computer scientists developing new algorithms for NGS data analysis. The seminar will be held in an agreeable location outside of the city of Moscow but easily reachable from the city. This relative isolation will facilitate in-depth informal discussions in addition to the program, but access from the city will also allow students and other interested scientists to take part in the workshop. We expect stimulating discussions on a wide range of topics, which will help to form new collaborations and consolidate the community in France, in Russia, and at the bilateral level. We hope the working program will clarify to mathematicians and software developers which kinds of algorithms and software are critically needed for analysis of newly available NGS data, as well as help the practicing experimentalists to get acquainted with recent developments in data treatment methods and their potential.
This workshop is supported by INRIA, the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, with the participation of Inria teams in Computational Sciences for Biology, Medicine and the Environment research theme.