We would like to invite you to the ECCB 2020 Workshop on *Computational
Pangenomics: Algorithms & Applications*, which will be taking place
*virtually* on Friday, 4th September, 2020.
For more information about the workshop see below and for registration
details please visit https://eccb2020.info/registration/. Notice that
ECCB 2020 goes virtual and so *a reduced fee applies*.
Best, Solon P. Pissis (CWI and VU) & Yuri Pirola (UNIMIB)
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*Computational Pangenomics: Algorithms & Applications*
https://eccb2020.info/ntbw05-computational-pangenomics-algorithms-applications/
*Date:* Friday, 4th September
*Time:* 17:00 to 20:00 (CEST)
*Organisers*
Solon P. Pissis | Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI and VU), The
Netherlands
Yuri Pirola | Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy
*Invited Speakers*
Valentina Boeva | ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Tobias Marshall | Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
*Summary*
Computational Pangenomics encompasses different research efforts for
transitioning the existing paradigm from a sequence-based reference
genome to a pan-genome, i.e., an evolutionarily coherent collections of
genomes. Such a transition is urgently needed to effectively exploit the
data masses produced by the technical advances and the widespread
adoption of sequencing technologies. Graph-based representations of
collections of genomes and diploid-aware assemblers have been recently
proposed, but a large amount of work is still needed to shift to a
pan-genomic view into the current research practice.
Computational Pangenomics is at its infancy and, to better sustain its
full (and possibly, rapid) development, an interdisciplinary
collaboration between Bioinformatics, Theoretical Computer Science, and
Medicine is of crucial importance. As such, the workshop aims to provide
an occasion for researchers of these disciplines to know the recent
advances of the topic and the questions that will drive the future
research efforts in this area.
This virtual workshop is articulated in two keynote talks focusing on
algorithms (graph and string algorithms, indexing) and on applications
(genome assembly, variant calling, comparative and evolutionary
genomics) and in several invited talks given by researchers from the EU
Project PANGAIA's partners.
*Target audience*
The workshop aims to strengthen the interdisciplinary collaborations
between computer scientists and bioinformaticians as well as
practitioners of the field of computational genomics that are interested
to deal with the complexity of data related to genomes at population scale.
The workshop is open to everyone who wants to share their ideas and work
about algorithms and applications related to computational pangenomics.
Furthermore, the workshop is the main occasion to present the EU Project
PANGAIA (https://www.pangenome.eu/) to the whole community of
researchers in computational biology. Participants will be able to
virtually meet the members and the partners of the PANGAIA project and,
possibly, start new collaborations on the subject.
*Schedule*
17:00 - 17:45 Tobias Marshall
17:45 - 18:30 Valentina Boeva
18:30 - 19:30 Invited talks given by researchers from the EU Project
PANGAIA's partners
19:30 - 20:00 Final round table with the keynote and invited speakers
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Solon P. Pissis, Ph.D
Principal Investigator
Life Sciences and Health research group
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Associate Professor
Faculty of Science, Bioinformatics
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Tel: +31 62 881 7122
Skype: solonas13
Email: solon.pissis@cwi.nl
WWW: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~solon/
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