[SocBiN] Travel grants to: "NGS methods for identification of mutations and large structural variants"

[Erik Bongcam-Rudloff]

Dear SocBin, 

We are pleased to announce a joint ALLBIO and COST SeqAhead event in Lausanne, Switzerland. 
It is entitled "Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) methods for identification of mutations and large structural variants" and will be held from Tuesday March 11 to Wednesday March 12, 2014.

This international event covers several aspects of the identification of genomic structural variants using NGS data. The mini symposium (Day 1) will present the latest developments in the field and the workshop (Day 2) will allow participants to get used to the tools with a virtual machine prepared during a test case hackathon (see AllBio project page for more information). Particular emphasis will be given to the comparison of the different analysis tools and how to combine their results. 

The ALLBIO (http://www.allbioinformatics.eu) FP7 CA aims to bring biologists and bioinformaticians together for the effective exploitation of high-throughput data. The focus being to apply the human genome bioinformatics analysis methods to non-model organisms in microbes, plants, and livestock.

Travel costs of the workshop are sponsored by the COST Action SeqAhead (http://www.seqahead.eu). and the ALLBIO project. Please apply in time!


The objective of the mini symposium is to provide an overview of the existing tools / pipelines available for NGS analysis, as well as to present some data using those tools. The objective of the workshop is to allow participants using the pipeline, either with our data, or with their own data.

Requirements for the workshop:

- Basic knowledge of UNIX
- A laptop with at least 4 GB RAM, 50 GB of free disk space, WIFI and VirtualBox preinstalled


This event is organised by the Vital-IT and the Bioinformatics Unravelling groups of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

The number of seats is limited to 90 for the mini symposium and to 25 for the workshop.

Further information and application are available from
http://edu.isb-sib.ch/course/view.php?id=104


Hope to see you there!

Grégoire Rossier (AllBio partner) & Laurent Falquet (SeqAhead partner)