Bioinformatics and Genomics

Yesterday, David Gonzalez and Maik Röder gave a talk in Paris about "RNA-Seq data analysis on the ENCODE project using the Grape pipeline".

We were invited to come to the lab of Daniel Gautheret, professor at the Université Paris-Sud, whose group is working on RNA sequence, structure and function.

Roderic Guigó, Francisco Câmara, Tyler Alioto and Paolo Ribeca (both now at the CNAG in Barcelona) have participated in a seven-year study that has lead to the sequencing and annotation of the commercially available tomato spp. (Solanum lycopersicum). Our work at the CRG has contributed to finding the ~35,000 genes contained in the tomato genome. We have also helped annotate the potato genome which was found to differ from that of tomato by only ~8.5% at its euchromatic region. 

This multi-national effort which included groups from fourteen countries has recently been published in the journal Nature.

RECOMB 2012 (the 16th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology) will take place in vibrant and beautiful Barcelona from the 21 to 24 April 2012. On this year's conference there will be a strong focus on the computational challenges arising from the extraordinary developments in high throughput technologies. Participants will enjoy a full agenda of keynote talks, paper presentations, and poster sessions, with ample opportunities to get a sample some of the city life of Barcelona. The meeting also overlaps with Sant Jordi (Saint George), on April 23, the patron of Catalonia, and one of the most important civic holidays in the country. In order to get more information on RECOMB 2012 and how to register please click here.

---PLEASE NOTE EARLY REGISTRATION HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 31 JANUARY 2012!!---

On the 10-11 of November 2011 our group headed by Roderic Guigo will be organizing a two-day CRG symposium on “Computational Biology of Molecular Sequences” which will bring together renowned Computational Biologists from around the world, including both pioneers in the field, as well as promising young scientists. Presentations, discussions and dialogue during the Symposium will contribute to survey the status of a discipline that, at the intersection of Biology and Computation, will have an enormous impact on the world of the XXIst century.

You may obtain more information on the objectives of the symposium, the current list of confirmed speakers and instructions on how to register by clicking here. The poster of the symposium can be downloaded by clicking here.