Next Generation Sequencing Workshop

Date:

  Monday 12 March 2012

Application opens: 

Tuesday 03 January 2012

Application deadline: 

Wednesday 01 February 2012

Contact: 

Alison Barker

Registration closed

Overview

SEQUENCE READ ARCHIVE
The Next Generation Sequencing Workshop will include units covering the EBI's Sequence Read Archive (SRA) service. This is combined with an introduction to the ENA (European Nucleotide Archive), a section on data compression, and hands-on experience with SRA. Students can expect to become familiar with submission and retrieval formats for both metadata and data, submission pipelines and data retrieval using browser and webservices methods.

VELVET / CURTAIN
Velvet and Curtain are two complementary tools that can be used for the assembly of genomes from next-generation sequence data. The session will consist of an introduction to both programs, followed by an exercise using short and long read data.

ChIP-SEQ DATA ANALYSIS
The goal of this session is to perform some basic tasks in the analysis of ChIP-seq data. We will find immuno-enriched areas using MACS and PeakAnalyzer utilities. We will visualize the data in a genome browser and perform annotation and motif analysis on the predicted binding regions.

RNA-Seq
Up and coming techniques to generate and analyse RNA-Seq data will be explored.

Additional information

This course will take place in the EMBL-EBI IT Training room which has 40 computers set up with the relevant disk images required for this course.

We recommend participants book accommodation at the Holiday Inn Express, Whittlesford, Cambridge CB22 4NL. Your credit card details will be required in order to secure the booking. Rooms are limited and are on a first come first serve basis, therefore we recommend booking early. If you wish to find alternative accommodation eg Cambridge, please see further information here : You will however have to make you own way directly to the EBI or the mini bus leaving from Whittlesford.

Programme

Time Topic
Day 1 - 12th March
09:00 - 09:30 Shuttle bus from accomodation at Holiday Inn Express Duxford to EBI
09:30 - 10:00 Welcome, course registration and introduction
10:00 - 11:00 Speaker: Harold Swerdlow (Next-Generation DNA Sequencing: Current technology and future)
11:00 - 11:15 Tea/coffee break
11:15 - 12:00 Speaker: Aylwyn Scally (TBA: Assembly, alignments, variant calling)
12:00 - 13:00 Speaker: Jen Harrow (TBA: RGASP)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Speaker: Elizabeth Murchison (Sequencing the genome of the Tasmanian devil and its transmissible cancer)
14:30 - 15:15 RNA-Seq lecture (Simon White/John Collins)
15:15 - 15:30 Tea/coffee break
15:30 - 16:00 RNA-Seq practical (Simon White/John Collins)
16:00 - 17:00 Speaker: Jon Teague/ Adam Butler (Next Generation Sequencing applications in Human Cancer)
17:00 - Shuttle bus back to Holiday Inn Express Duxford
Day 2 - 13th March
08:30 - 09:00 Shuttle bus from accomodation at Holiday Inn Express Duxford to EBI
09:00 - 09:30 ENA introduction (ENA team)
09:30 - 10:00 SRA introduction (ENA team)
10:00 - 11:00 SRA Submission, browsing, and data retrieval (ENA team)
11:00 - 1115 Tea/coffee break
11:15 - 11:35 Data compression (ENA team)
11:35 - 12:15 ENA submission (practical)
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch
13:15 - 14:00 ENA submission (practical)
14:00 - 15:00 Introduction to de novo assembly with Velvet (Matthias Haimel)
15:00 - 15:15 Tea/coffee break
15:15 - 17:30 Introduction to de novo assembly with Velvet (Matthias Haimel)
17:30 Shuttle bus back to Holiday Inn Express Duxford
Day 3 - 14th March
08:30 - 09:00 Shuttle bus from accomodation at Holiday Inn Express Duxford to EBI
09:00 -  09:45 Speaker: Steven Wilder (ENCODE)
09:45 - 10:15 ChIP-seq anaylsis: lecture (Remco Loos and Myrto Kostadima)
10:15 - 10:30 Tea/coffee break
10:30 - 13:00 ChIP-seq practical: peak detection and peak annotation (Remco Loos and Myrto Kostadima)
13:00 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 15:30 ChIP-seq practical: peak detection and peak annotation (Remco Loos and Myrto Kostadima)
15:30 - 15:45 Tea/coffee break
15:45 - 16:30 Speaker: Laura Clarke (1000 Genomes Project: a History, Methods and Results)
16:30 - 17:00 Course wrap-up and discussion
17:00 Shuttle bus back to Holiday Inn Express Duxford

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