Massive sequencing projects in practice

Both organizations are already collaborating on several projects, including the mapping of the genomes of more than 1,000 species of gut bacteria, compiled from 577 billion base pairs of sequence data. The leading scientific journal Science selected this work as one of the scientific breakthroughs of 2011. Large-scale genome sequencing is becoming ever more important in life sciences, healthcare and agricultural research.

Henry Yang, Executive Managemer of BGI, will start the meeting with an overview and introduction to BGI's sequencing and supercomputing infrastructure. Other talks, by BGI and VIB scientists, will tackle large-scale analysis of human genomes, metagenomics and microbiology, the genomics of model organisms and the computational analysis of the data generated in genomics experiments.

Attending the meeting is free, but registration is obligatory.

BGI (http://en.genomics.cn), the world’s premier genomics sequencing company and VIB (www.vib.be), a life sciences research institute in Flanders, Belgium, announce a joint genomics meeting, taking place on February 15, 2012. The meeting will feature several talks on BGI’s sequencing and computing infrastructure as well as VIB research in human, animal and microbial genomics and collaborative VIB-BGI projects. Both organizations are already collaborating on several projects, including the mapping of the genomes of more than 1,000 species of gut bacteria, compiled from 577 billion base pairs of sequence data. The leading scientific journal Science selected this work as one of the scientific breakthroughs of 2011. Large-scale genome sequencing is becoming ever more important in life sciences, healthcare and agricultural research.

Henry Yang, Executive Managemer of BGI, will start the meeting with an overview and introduction to BGI’s sequencing and computing infrastructure. Other talks, by BGI and VIB scientists, will tackle large-scale analysis of human genomes, metagenomics and microbiology, the genomics of model organisms and the computational analysis of the data generated in genomics experiments.

Attending the meeting is free, but registration is obligatory

Register at http://www.vib.be/vib-bgi-genomics