A workshop for PhD students and post-doctoral researchers coming with their own real data sets will get the training and their data analysis done at considerable discount. After this course they will be able to analyze their own data and create ready-to-publish graphics.

Goals :

Genome assembly refers to the process of taking a large number of short DNA sequences and putting them back together to create a representation of the original chromosomes from which the DNA originated. De novo genome assemblies assume no prior knowledge of the source DNA sequence length, layout or composition.
The goal of a sequence assembler is to produce long contiguous pieces of sequence (contigs) from these reads. The contigs are sometimes then ordered and oriented in relation to one another to form scaffolds. The distances between pairs of a set of paired end reads is useful information for this purpose.