PacBio - Human Genome Assembly, Cod Slides and a Number of Useful Data Sets

PacBio - Human Genome Assembly, Cod Slides and a Number of Useful Data Sets


Our ‘Best of 2013’ winner is a Speaker at AGBT.

Friday, February 14 (Evening)

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

  • Jason Chin, Pacific Biosciences, Inc.

String Graph Assembly For Diploid Genomes With Long Reads

The conference has several other talks on assembly from long and noisy PacBio reads.

Friday, February 14 (Morning)

11:30 a.m. 11:45 a.m.

  • W.R. McCombie, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

“A Near Perfect de novo Assembly of a Eukaryotic Genome Using Sequence Reads of Greater than 10 Kilobases Generated by the Pacific Biosciences RS II

11:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m.

  • Gene Myers, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

A de novo Whole Genome Shotgun Assembler for Noisy Long Read Data

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

  • Sean McGrath, The Genome Institute at Washington University

Pacific Bioscience Long-Read RNA-Seq for Gene Isoform Identification and de novo Gene Prediction

and on transcriptomics -

2:40 p.m. 3:00 p.m.

Pacific Biosciences, Jonas Korlach

No Assembly Required: Extremely Long Reads for Full-length Transcript Isoform Sequencing

Regarding the last talk, please check our blog posts

End of Short-Read Era? (Part I)

End of Short-Read Era? (Part II)

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