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<p>Dear All,<br>
<br>
We would like to invite you to the ECCB 2020 Workshop on <b>Computational
Pangenomics: Algorithms & Applications</b>, which will be
taking place <b>virtually</b> on Friday, 4th September, 2020.<br>
<br>
For more information about the workshop see below and for
registration details please visit
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://eccb2020.info/registration/">https://eccb2020.info/registration/</a>. Notice that ECCB 2020 goes
virtual and so <b>a reduced fee applies</b>.<br>
<br>
Best, Solon P. Pissis (CWI and VU) & Yuri Pirola (UNIMIB)<br>
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<b>Computational Pangenomics: Algorithms & Applications</b><br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://eccb2020.info/ntbw05-computational-pangenomics-algorithms-applications/">https://eccb2020.info/ntbw05-computational-pangenomics-algorithms-applications/</a><br>
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<b>Date:</b> Friday, 4th September<br>
<br>
<b>Time:</b> 17:00 to 20:00 (CEST)<br>
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<b>Organisers</b><br>
<br>
Solon P. Pissis | Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI and VU),
The Netherlands<br>
Yuri Pirola | Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB),
Italy<br>
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<b>Invited Speakers</b><br>
<br>
Valentina Boeva | ETH Zürich, Switzerland<br>
Tobias Marshall | Universität Düsseldorf, Germany<br>
<br>
<b>Summary</b><br>
<br>
Computational Pangenomics encompasses different research efforts
for transitioning the existing paradigm from a sequence-based
reference genome to a pan-genome, i.e., an evolutionarily coherent
collections of genomes. Such a transition is urgently needed to
effectively exploit the data masses produced by the technical
advances and the widespread adoption of sequencing technologies.
Graph-based representations of collections of genomes and
diploid-aware assemblers have been recently proposed, but a large
amount of work is still needed to shift to a pan-genomic view into
the current research practice.<br>
<br>
Computational Pangenomics is at its infancy and, to better sustain
its full (and possibly, rapid) development, an interdisciplinary
collaboration between Bioinformatics, Theoretical Computer
Science, and Medicine is of crucial importance. As such, the
workshop aims to provide an occasion for researchers of these
disciplines to know the recent advances of the topic and the
questions that will drive the future research efforts in this
area.<br>
<br>
This virtual workshop is articulated in two keynote talks focusing
on algorithms (graph and string algorithms, indexing) and on
applications (genome assembly, variant calling, comparative and
evolutionary genomics) and in several invited talks given by
researchers from the EU Project PANGAIA’s partners.<br>
<br>
<b>Target audience</b><br>
<br>
The workshop aims to strengthen the interdisciplinary
collaborations between computer scientists and bioinformaticians
as well as practitioners of the field of computational genomics
that are interested to deal with the complexity of data related to
genomes at population scale.<br>
<br>
The workshop is open to everyone who wants to share their ideas
and work about algorithms and applications related to
computational pangenomics.<br>
<br>
Furthermore, the workshop is the main occasion to present the EU
Project PANGAIA (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pangenome.eu/">https://www.pangenome.eu/</a>) to the whole
community of researchers in computational biology.
Participants will be able to virtually meet the members and the
partners of the PANGAIA project and, possibly, start new
collaborations on the subject.<br>
<br>
<b>Schedule</b><br>
<br>
17:00 - 17:45 Tobias Marshall<br>
17:45 - 18:30 Valentina Boeva<br>
18:30 - 19:30 Invited talks given by researchers from the EU
Project PANGAIA’s partners<br>
19:30 - 20:00 Final round table with the keynote and invited
speakers<br>
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Solon P. Pissis, Ph.D
Principal Investigator
Life Sciences and Health research group
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Associate Professor
Faculty of Science, Bioinformatics
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Tel: +31 62 881 7122
Skype: solonas13
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:solon.pissis@cwi.nl">solon.pissis@cwi.nl</a>
WWW: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://homepages.cwi.nl/~solon/">https://homepages.cwi.nl/~solon/</a></pre>
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