Seminar Sequencing and Assembly

Lecturers:	Juliane D. Klein and Prof. Dr. Daniel Huson
Type of course:	Seminar for MSc Bioinformatic students. Credits: 4 LP / 2SWS
Time and location:	Thursday, 9:00 (=s.t.)-10:00 A302
First session:	16 Th October 2008
Office hours/contact:	Juliane D. Klein
Obligatory registration by email with matriculation number to:	Juliane D. Klein
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Outline and scope:

DNA sequencing technology is currently developing very fast with new instruments and new approaches being launched every year.

Now, an individual lab can resequence 1000 large genomes in a year.

In this seminar, we will look at existing and emerging sequencing technologies and will discuss some of the algorithmic and computational

challenges posed by these advances.

Presentation topics will include current trends in:

Literature for the different presentations are up-to-date scientific reviews and articles which will be provided to the speakers.

Further autonomous literature search is expected.

Each speaker will hold a ~40 min talk and present the relevant results to all participants.

Presentations will be given in English.

To sign up for this seminar please send an email to Juliane D. Klein.

Schedule:

Title	Speaker	Date	Supervisor
History of DNA sequencing	Katrin Sippel	27.11.2008	D.Richter
Next generation sequencing technologies	Volker Grabe	04.12.2008	J.D.Klein
Overview genome assembly/ EDENA assembler	Karin Klotzbuecher	11.12.2008	J.D.Klein
Velvet and Euler assembler	Julian Zipperer	18.12.2008	J.D.Klein
Comparative Assembly Comparative Assembly 2 (ABBA)	Christoph Schmidt Benjamin Albrecht	15.01.2009	J.D.Klein
Parallel Assembly		22.01.2009	J.D.Klein
Genome annotation Microbiology in the post-genomic era	Max Schubach Tim Scheurenbrand	29.01.2009	D.Richter
Metagenomics 1 Metagenomics 2	Paul Rupek Andreas Schaetzle	05.02.2009	D.Richter