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Mini Work­shop on Ge­no­mics

MGG Mini Work­shop on the Ana­ly­sis of En­vi­ron­men­tal­ly re­le­vant Mi­cro­or­ga­nisms and Com­pa­ra­ti­ve Ge­no­mics
 
Background

The se­quen­cing of ge­no­mes and me­ta­ge­no­mes has to­day be­co­me a stan­dard tech­ni­que in mole­cu­lar bio­lo­gy. Ne­ar­ly un­li­mi­ted se­quen­cing ca­pa­ci­ties exist world­wi­de pro­vi­ded on de­mand by e.g. the Joint Ge­no­me In­sti­tu­te, the Craig Ven­ter In­sti­tu­te or Ge­no­scope. Af­ter ob­tai­ning the se­quen­ces of an or­ga­nism or com­mu­ni­ty of in­te­rest for most in­ves­ti­ga­tors, wi­thout strong bio­in­for­ma­tics back­ground, a ques­ti­on ari­ses: "What should I do with it now?". The ana­ly­sis of thousand of ge­nes and the com­pa­ri­son of the con­tent with pu­blis­hed in­for­ma­ti­on is far from being tri­vi­al and re­qui­res, be­si­des the "Know-How", a huge amount of com­pu­ta­tio­nal power.
This si­tua­ti­on is si­mi­lar to what we fo­cus­sed at MPI around 7 ye­ars ago when we got our first se­ven mil­li­on AGCTs for the Planc­to­my­ce­te Rho­do­pi­rel­lu­la bal­ti­ca se­quen­ced. No "turn-key" soft­ware sys­tems was avail­able that hel­ped us to an­s­wer our bio­lo­gi­cal ques­ti­ons. So, we de­ci­ded to build up a ge­no­me ana­ly­sis in­fra­struc­tu­re and de­ve­lop soft­ware so­lu­ti­ons to in­ves­ti­ga­te ge­no­me and me­ta­ge­no­me data es­pe­cial­ly from en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly re­le­vant mi­cro­or­ga­nisms and to com­pa­re the data with pu­bli­cly avail­able in­for­ma­ti­on.

With this mini-work­shop we want to sha­re our ac­cu­mu­la­ted know­ledge about gene-pre­dic­tion, an­no­ta­ti­on and com­pa­ra­ti­ve ge­no­mics and pay re­spect to se­veral re­quests by re­se­ar­chers that had as­ked us how they could ana­ly­se their re­cent­ly ob­tai­ned se­quence in­for­ma­ti­on from their "hob­by-hor­ses".


Agenda

The work­shop will fo­cus on:

* ORF-Pre­dic­tion (Frank Oli­ver Glöck­ner)
* Auto-an­no­ta­ti­on of ge­no­mes (Mi­cH­an­Thi) (Chris­ti­an Quast)
* An­no­ta­ti­on­sys­tems (GenDB) (Thier­ry Lom­bar­dot)
* Com­pa­ra­ti­ve ge­no­mics (jCO­AST) and con­textu­al in­for­ma­ti­on (ge­no­mes­DB) (Mi­cha­el Rich­ter)
* Use-ca­ses from ac­tu­al pro­jects: Com­pa­ra­ti­ve ge­no­mics of Planc­to­my­ce­tes and Bac­te­ro­ide­tes (Ivay­lo Ko­sta­di­nov)



Location

When: March 13, 2007
Time: 11:00 to ap­pro­xi­ma­te 17:00 h
Lo­ca­ti­on: Max Planck In­sti­tu­te for Ma­ri­ne Mi­cro­bio­lo­gy in Bre­men, Se­mi­nar­room 4021 and PC-lab
How to reach the institute
Con­tact: eu-work­shops(at)mpi-bre­men.de

If you are in­te­rested in par­ti­ci­pa­ting, plea­se send an e-mail to eu-work­shops(at)mpi-bre­men.de un­til the first of March.

Additional information

The Microbial Genomics Group (MGG)
Co­lo­nies of Rhodopirellula baltica
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