Everything You Need to Know to Follow #AGBT15

Everything You Need to Know to Follow #AGBT15


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The AGBT conference is taking place at the beautiful Marco Island, Florida between Feb 25, 2015 - Feb 28, 2015.

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Previews

My friend Keith Robison, who writes Omics!Omics! blog, posted an excellent preview on the conference, listing what to expect (and not expect). You can read it here.

Keith is very up-to-date and knowledgeable about latest genomics technology, and his blog was selected by our readers and judges as the ‘Best of 2013’. Here are two other informative posts from Keith related to AGBT15.

Illumina Launches NeoPrep (#agbt15)

Can Ion Torrent Buzz Again?

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Conference information

You can see the talks and posters at this website. One nice aspect of AGBT is that they allow outsiders to see all abstracts on their website. For some strange reason, CSHL conferences have not mastered this technology.

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On twitter

You can follow the conference in twitter using hashtag #AGBT15, or simply click on this link. A large number of attendees are live-tweeting the talks. In fact this year, they have made twittering the default option for all talks, unless the speaker requests otherwise.

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Is perfect bioinformatician possible?

I am not attending the conference, but if I wanted to list my reasons for being there, listening to Gene Myers would have been at the top. Over the last year, I read almost all of his papers going all the way back to 1980s and found them to be incredibly good.

As you may have noticed, Gene Myers came back to the topic of genome assembly last year to revolutionize the field again.

Myers has two talks -

Is Perfect Assembly Possible?

Gene Myers, Ph.D.

Founding Director, Systems Biology Center, Max Planck Institute

Saturday, February 28

Low Coverage, Correction-Free Assembly for Long Reads

Gene Myers, Max Planck Institute CBG

11:20 a.m. 11:40 a.m.

Plenary Session: Genomics II

Islands Ballroom

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Pacbio workshop and live-streaming

If you are not at the conference, you can still view Gene Myers’ talk and a number of other talks through live-streaming by PacBio. It requires registration at the Pacbio website.

Pacbio organized a fantastic line-up of speakers for their workshop. They are listed below, and you can see more details on posters from their website.

WORKSHOP

Palms Ballroom

Friday, February 27, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Lunch will be served

Towards Comprehensive Genomics - Past Present and Future

Introduction by Michael Hunkapiller

President and Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Biosciences

The Human Genome: From One To One Million

J. Craig Venter, Ph.D.

Co-founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Human Longevity Inc.

Is Perfect Assembly Possible?

Gene Myers, Ph.D.

Founding Director, Systems Biology Center, Max Planck Institute

Finishing Genomes: Why Does It Matter?

Deanna Church, Ph.D.

Senior Director of Genomics and Content, Personalis

De Novo Assembly of a Human Diploid Genome for the Asian Genome Project

Jeong-Sun Seo M.D.,Ph.D.

Director Genomic Medicine Institute, Seoul National University College of Medicine

Founder and Chairman, Macrogen Inc.

PacBio Long Read Sequencing and Structural Analysis of a Breast Cancer Cell Line

W. Richard McCombie, Ph.D.

Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

PROGRAM PRESENTATIONS

Thursday, February 26

Resolving the Complexity of Human Genetic Variation by Single-Molecule Sequencing

Evan Eichler, University of Washington

9:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m.

Plenary Session: Genomics I

Islands Ballroom

Anchored Assembly: Accurate Structural Variant Detection Using Short-Read Data

Jeremy Bruestle, Spiral Genetics

8:30 p.m. 8:50 p.m.

Concurrent Session: Informatics

Salons E & F

Sequencing-Based Approaches for Genome-Scale Functional Annotation

Matthew Blow, D.O.E. Joint Genome Institute

8:50 p.m. 9:10 p.m.

Concurrent Session: Biology

Islands Ballroom

Friday, February 27

Neural Circular RNAs are Derived from Synaptic Genes and Regulated by Development and Plasticity

Wei Chen, Max-Delbruck-Centrum (MDC)

8:50 p.m. 9:10 p.m.

Concurrent Session: Transcriptomics

Salons G through J

A Genome Assembly of the Domestic Goat from 70x Coverage of Single Molecule Real Time Sequence

Tim Smith, U.S. Meat Animal Research Center

8:50 p.m. 9:10 p.m.

Concurrent Session: Technology

Islands Ballroom

PacBio Application Influenza Viral RNA-Seq

Amy Ly, The Genome Institute at Washington University

9:10 p.m. 9:30 p.m.

Concurrent Session: Technology

Islands Ballroom

Saturday, February 28

Low Coverage, Correction-Free Assembly for Long Reads

Gene Myers, Max Planck Institute CBG

11:20 a.m. 11:40 a.m.

Plenary Session: Genomics II

Islands Ballroom



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