Section outline

  • 1st day: assembly of long reads

    08.30 - 08.45 Welcoming

    08.45 - 09.15 Philippe Reymond: Assembly of the Oak genome and assessment of somatic mutations

    09.15 - 09.45 Emanuel Schmid: overview on single molecule sequencing and assembly of long reads

    09.45 - 10.00 Coffee break

    10.00 - 10.30 Sergey Koren: presentation of the assembler Canu and latest developments

    10.30 - 11.30 demo of Sergey Koren, assembly of E. coli

    11.30 - 12.30 lunch break

    12.30 - 15.00 hands-on: assembling in small groups a plant contig

    15.00 - 15.15 coffee break

    15.15 - 17.00 hands-on: continuing genome assembly

    2nd day: evaluation of genome assemblies

    08.30 - 08.45 Welcoming

    08.45 - 09.15 Robert Waterhouse: BUSCO- assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness

    09.15 - 09.45 Damien Liebherr: SwissProt and the curation of (plant) proteins

    09.45 - 010.00 Coffee break

    10.00 - 10.30 Emanuel Schmid: comparison and evaluation of genome assemblies

    10.30 - 12.00 hands-on: comparison of assembled genomes (& to reference)

    12.00 - 13.00 lunch break

    13.00 - 15.00 hands-on: comparison of assembled genomes

    15.00 - 15.15 coffee break

    15.15 - 17.00 hands-on: gene prediction