Museum genomics in practice
The purpose of this workshop is to share practitioners' knowledge in how we get next-gen sequencing data (wet lab) and process it (bioinformatics) from “non-model” species and samples of diverse types and quality, including museum and herbarium specimens.
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Many thanks to all of you for your positive responses to our invitation to attend the Museum Genomics in Practice workshop.
To help us manage catering and to organise presentations (talks or posters) from those interested in sharing their work/experiences, we ask all invited participants to now register for the workshop by 17 March, 2017.
We have around 50 people from universities, collections and NCRIS attending and can include short talks from ~30 participants. Please indicate when you register if you would like to present a short talk (10-15 mins) or poster.
The CBA is funding costs for two invited speakers (Lydia Smith, Manager Evol. Genomics Lab, UC Berkeley) and Sonal Singhal (Univ. Michigan), and will cover catering costs for tea breaks and lunches.
Please note that the workshop dinner at University House on Tuesday evening will occur a charge to participants. You can choose to register without paying for the dinner if you do not wish to attend.
Please note that participation in this workshop is by invitation only. If you would like to be involved and have not received an invite, please contact us.
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The purpose of this workshop is to share practitioners' knowledge in how we get next-gen sequencing data (wet lab) and process it (bioinformatics) from “non-model” species and samples of diverse types and quality, including museum and herbarium specimens.
The focus will be on high throughput and cost-effective phylogenomic, population genetic and (multilocus) barcoding applications and RNAseq, rather than full genome sequencing and assembly.
Possible outcomes include:
- Sharing of protocols across museum and university labs for DNA manipulation and library preparation, possible via a community web site or social media site;
- Sharing of experiences, solutions (and frustrations) in bioinformatics pipelines – cleaning, assembly, alignment or SNP calling, archiving etc.; and
- Developing use cases and priority needs for further investment in pipelines and host computing infrastructure;
- Identify opportunities for collaboration with ALA to improve visualisation of results and connecting specimen to genomic data.
Please note that participation in this workshop is by invitation only. If you would like to be involved and have not received an invite, please contact us.
Location
The workshop is being held at ANU in Seminar Room 1 (top floor) of the Sciences Teaching Building, Building 136, Linnaeus Way (STB S1).
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