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Workshop in Next-Generation Sequence Analysis and Metabolomics

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Workshop in Next-Generation Sequence Analysis and Metabolomics
May 16-17, 2013
UNC Charlotte Center City Building
320 E. Ninth St. (at Brevard)
Charlotte, NC (Uptown)
Welcome to WiNGS!
The UNC Charlotte Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics is delighted to host WiNGS, The Workshop in Next-Generation Sequence Analysis and Metabolomics

High-throughput sequencing platforms are emerging as the heir to the ubiquitous microarray, a highly parallel way to assess the state of the DNA or RNA in a sample. These assays have the potential to accelerate biological discovery as comprehensive analyses of genomes, meta-genomes, transcriptomes and metabolomes becomes increasingly inexpensive and routine. However, as with microarrays, the data challenges are significant: each platform has idiosyncrasies that affect data cleansing choices, and experimental design has a large impact on what algorithms and pipelines are a good fit. At the same time, advances in high-throughput mass spectrometry are making it possible to investigate the outcomes of differential gene expression through simultaneous measurement of metabolites, transcriptomes, and epigenomes. Interpreting these vast data sets requires user-friendly but powerful visualization and modeling tools that promote exploration, analysis, and discovery.
This workshop is designed to showcase paths to successful utilization of high-throughput data while providing a solid understanding of how specific software tools influence and facilitate discovery. It includes a collection of presentations describing the experiments themselves followed by extended hands-on sessions. Our goal is to provide experimentalists with theoretical background and hands-on experience so that they use these exciting new methods in their own research. 
  • On Thursday the presenters will explain the various experimental design choices from selecting methods and algorithms to other parameters and considerations in order to achieve specific outcomes.
  • On Friday there will be three 2-hour sessions with two workshops per session running concurrently. Attendees get hands-on experience in a directed tutorial that takes a preliminary dataset through a pipeline that is properly tuned to the experiment. Attendees select workshop sessions, on a first-come first-serve basis.

Presentations and demonstration data sets will be available for participants to take home for use in research and teaching.
Sponsors for WiNGS 2013 include
National Science Foundation Plant Genome Research Program
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UNCC College of Computing and Informatics

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When
Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Friday, May 17, 2013 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

  • Where

  • UNC Charlotte Center City Building
    320 E. 9th Street
    Charlotte, North Carolina 28202
    USA

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