Beatles and Bioinformatics! 27th November 2013 in Liverpool

Twitter superstar Nick Loman has organized a great meeting in Liverpool (United Kingdom) called Beatles and Bioinformatics! on 27th November 2013. I just gave my keynote talk about Ray and metagenomics. I am currently attending the new great talks.

You can watch the live talks from Beatles and Bioinformatics! on the YouTube channel called pathogenomics.


Also, the CGR (Center for Genomic Research) Course in Metagenomics (held on 28th & 29th November 2013 in Liverpool) will cover 16S ribosonal RNA analysis and so-called OTUs (Operational Taxonomic Unit). The agenda is available too.


Update 2013-11-27 23:07 GMT:

Direct links to each talk on YouTube:

• 13.00 – KEYNOTE: Sebastien Boisvert (@sebhtml), Université Laval, Québec, Canada – “Ray and Ray Cloud Browser for Metagenomics”  (sound starts after 40 seconds from the start)
• 13.50 – Chris Stewart (@CJStewart7), University of Northumbria at Newcastle – “Development of the Gut Microbiome in Preterm Infants at Risk of Necrotising Enterocolitis and Sepsis”
• 14.10 – Chris Quince, University of Glasgow – “CONCOCT: Clustering cONtigs on COverage and ComposiTion”
• 14.30 – Susannah Salter (@Zannah_Du), Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute – “What’s lurking in your kits?”
• 15.10 – KEYNOTE: Prof. Daniel Huson – Center for Bioinformatics, University of Tübingen – “Identifying Organisms from a Stream of DNA Sequences”
• 16.00 – Sujai Kumar (@SujaiK), University of Oxford – “Blobology: exploring raw (meta)genome data for contaminants, symbionts and parasites using taxon-annotated GC-coverage plots”
• 16.20 – Mike Cox (@MikeyJ), Imperial College – “Copy number correction in 16S analysis”
• 16.40 – Rebecca Gladstone (@RAGladstone), University of Southampton / Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute – “Managing hundreds and thousands of bacterial genome sequences”

Organized by the University of Birmingham and University of Liverpool 


Update 2013-11-27 23:46 GMT:

Checkout the tweets on Twitter with hashtag #BeatlesAndBioinformatics !