Balti and Bioinformatics: Midlands Sequencing and Bioinformatics Meeting: Monday, 20th May 2013

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It’s that time again! Balti and bioinformatics will return .. on Monday, 20th May 2013. Not dissimilar to last time, we will feature complimentary samosas from Smethwick’s finest sweet shop, and hopefully without the bit where about 40 people had to crowd into my office. Spaces will be limited, please register to attend via the Google web form (it’s free!).
Programme:
West Midlands Bioinformatics & Sequencing Meeting: Balti and bioinformatics
Monday, 20th May 2013
Venue: Room 311, Geography Building, University of Birmingham (not Centre for Systems Biology, Haworth Building, University of Birminghamt
The Geography Building is adjacent to Biosciences (R26 on the campus map here)
If you are coming by car, please see the University travel website for details on car parking. The South Car Park is usually most convenient.
If you are coming by train, the Geography Building is a very short walk from the University (Birmingham) train station, which in turn is 2 stops from Birmingham New Street on the Redditch line.
12:30 Registration
13:00 Introduction
The Antipodean Invasion (Lamingtons not supplied)
13:10 “Torsten’s toolkit: VAGUE, Prokka, Nesoni, VelvetOptimiser and more” – Torsten Seemann, Monash University / Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Australia
13:40 “Tutorials in the cloud: Microbial genomics using Galaxy” – Simon Gladman, CSIRO / Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Australia
14:10 “The genomics of footrot disease” – Dieter Bulach, Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Australia
14:20 Samosa break
14:40 “Doctorin’ the TraDIS: Analysis of data derived from Transposon-directed insertion-site sequencing”, Roy Chaudhuri, Centre for Genomic Research, University of Liverpool
15:10 ”Infrastructure isn’t just hardware: TGAC’s tools supporting data-driven informatics” – Robert Davey, The Genome Analysis Center (TGAC), Norwich
15:40 “Norovirus genomics”, Liz Batty, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford
16:00 ”Experiments with Nextera” – Jelena Sostare, University of Birmingham
16:10 Bioinformatics clinic
16:30 Discussion, depart for balti in taxis  Read more