Topic outline

  • General

    Long reads applied to plant genome assembling

    Lausanne, 20-21 June 2018

    University of Lausanne, Genopode building, room 2020

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    For any assistance, please contact training@sib.swiss.


    • Schedule

      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