Finishing in the Future

“Finishing in the Future” is a meeting dedicated to bringing together experts in the field of genomic finishing - including representatives from the industries that serve this specialized scientific community. The meeting focuses on laboratory methods and computational tools used to help sequence, assemble, and finish genomes, including new sequencing technologies, which promise high-throughput results by sequencing more base-pairs per run at longer read-lengths. In the past, companies have presented different techniques they have developed to achieve maximum balance for researchers. To this end, the 2007 meeting included an open and candid panel discussion with the audience about how finishing could be made faster and cheaper and a more accessible tool for enhancing research.

Due to the nature of the expanding field of metagenomics, the Finishing in the Future 2008 will include an entire day devoted to this research area.

Finishing in the Future 2008

Please join us May 28-30, 2008 for the 3^rd annual Finishing in the Future meeting at the La Fonda Hotel in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico. View the 2008 Meeting invitation here.

Areas of emphasis will include:

Keynote speakers

Sydney Brenner, 2002 Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine, Founder of the Molecular Sciences Institute, and Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Crick-Jacobs Center, Salk Institute
Bruce Birren, Director of the Microbial Sequencing Center and Co-Director of the Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Broad Institute
Deanna Church, Coordinator for the Mouse and Human Genome Resources and Trace Archive, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

Genome Sequencing:

Draft sequencing, assembly and quality assessment
Metagenomic sequencing strategies
New sequencing technologies (454, Solexa, SOLiD, Helicos, etc.)

Genome Finishing and Analysis:

Finishing systems and pipelines (automated, manual, etc.)
Using new sequencing technology (454, Solexa, etc.) data
Comparative genomics, Resequencing, SNPs
Structural variation
Metagenomics
Genome annotation

Bioinformatics:

Whole genome assemblers, New sequence alignment tools
Using near neighbor genome data for finishing, Genome annotation for finishing
Integrating Sanger & 454 genome assemblies, De novo assemblers for short reads
New basecallers and standardization of qualities
Metagenomic assemblies and analysis
Finishing quality standards for new technology or mixed data sets

2008 Meeting

The Finishing in the Future meeting is sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute.

No registration fee is required.