Workshop Statistical challenges of NGS in plants

Date:

20 May 2010 to 21 May 2010

Location:

Het Pand, Ghent, Belgium

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies will soon enable us to sequence plant genomes for less than 1000 euros. This will accelerate plant genomics and biological research. However, the dramatic expansion in both the availability of sequence data and the range of sequencing-based applications requires new statistical and bioinformatics techniques & approaches to unlock the sequence-treasury. 

The aim of this workshop is to build a community of researchers that are facing the design and analysis of experiments involving high-throughput sequence data. This community provides a low-entry platform for the presentation and discussion of problems, best-practice, solutions, ideas and future directions to empower its members.

The workshop will have only oral presentations by invitation. In addition, contributed papers will be highly appreciated via poster presentations.

Marco Bink of the Plant Research International is chair of the workshop.

This workshop is organised within EU Cost Action TD0801 "Statistical challenges on the 1000€ genome sequences in plants". The main objective of the Action is to use and/or develop, through coordinated international efforts, efficient statistical and bioinformatics tools and strategies in order to produce, assemble, analyze, and integrate high-throughput genomic sequence data, aiming at a better understanding of biological systems in plants.

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