[bioinfo] CS 591 BIO: Talk by Prof. Matt Hudson this Friday

[Saurabh Sinha]

Hello,
    our speaker this week is Prof. Matt Hudson (Crop Sciences, UIUC).  
He will be speaking on "The next generation of genome sequencing -  
challenges for computational biology". More information about PRof.  
Hudson's work is available at: http://stan.cropsci.uiuc.edu/    
Details of his talk are given below.

    TIME: 10:30 am - 11:30 am.
    DATE: Friday. March 9.
    PLACE: 3401 Siebel Center.

    See you there !
    Thanks,
    Saurabh
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The next generation of genome sequencing - challenges for  
computational biology
- Prof. Matt Hudson

The need for extensive haplotyping in human genetics has spurred the  
development of new technologies designed for resequencing of  
individual genomes. These technologies use diverse methods, but all  
rely on massively parallel bead-based approaches. Since these methods  
produce very different data types to conventional sequencing, and  
vastly greater data volumes, new approaches are necessary to handle  
and process results from next-generation sequencing. In some cases a  
single run from a single machine can generate 500GB of data. These  
technologies are likely to drive the development of hardware and  
software for computational biology over the near future. Applications  
and approaches for next-generation genomics and data analysis will be  
discussed.