The University of Helsinki will host a summer school on Bioinformatics Data Structures from August 9th to 12th, 2016.  The preliminary program for the summer school is below.  Although speaking slots, rooms and student-travel grants have already been assigned, anyone still wishing to participate should contact Travis Gagie (travis.gagie@gmail.com).

11.30--13 lunch

13--14.30 Leena Salmela (Helsinki), “Error correction of sequencing reads”

14.30--16 Antti Laaksonen (Aalto), "Maximum subarray problem: History, variations and applications"


Wednesday (Aug 10):

10--11.30 Shunsuke Inenaga (Kyushu), “The myriad virtues of DAWGs”

11.30--13 lunch

13--14.30 Djamal Belazzougui (CERIST) + Fabio Cunial (MPI), “Suffix-tree genomics 1”

14.30--16 Jouni Sirén (Sanger), “FM-index and the reverse prefix trie”


Thursday (Aug 11):

10--11.30 Costas Iliopoulos (King’s), “Popping Superbubbles”, “Finding Clumps”

11.30--13 lunch

13--14.30 Djamal Belazzougui (CERIST) + Fabio Cunial (MPI), “Suffix-tree genomics 2”

14.30--16 Jouni Sirén (Sanger), “Indexing variation graphs”


Friday (Aug 12):

10--10.30 Szymon Grabowski (Łódź), "Compressed genomic sequences with fast access"

10.30--11.30 open session (student discussions, open problems)

11.30--13 lunch

13--14.30 Juha Kärkkäinen (Helsinki), “The longest common prefix array”

14.30--16 Alexandru Tomescu (Helsinki), “Min-cost flows and applications to bioinformatics”



90-minute lectures will be split into two 40-minute sections with a 10-minute break between them.