Workshop on Comparative Genomics: Special Session at the Smithsonian Institution

The Special Session of the Workshop on Comparative Genomics is designed for scientists at all professional levels at the Smithsonian Institution and allied institutions who are participating in a genomic science (genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics and related sub-disciplines). The Workshop title includes the word “Comparative”. While some of the topics are not comparative by nature (e.g. de novo sequence assembly) a large number of applications in these fields are comparative, in particular, metagenomics, mapping and many assembly and gene finding algorithms all benefit from comparison with previously established data. At the end of the Workshop participants should be well-versed in the current state of sequencing technologies and basic data analyses. Finally, a good deal of time will be devoted to specific topics determined to be of high-interest to scientists in the community. These include using platforms/frameworks and workflows, assembly and alignment, transcriptomics and metagenomics. The preliminary schedule with brief descriptions are provided below. Morning lectures will be held from 9:00 a.m. through noon each day. Afternoon laboratory section