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Next Generation Sequencing is growing ever more popular and successful. The challenge is how to make the most out of the data your sequencing platform throws at you. Genomatix has put substantial effort into the development of Next Generation Sequencing data analysis applications that help you there.
Together with cooperation partners, we recently started a succession of workshops on this topic, which has met with considerable response. Continuing this series, we would like to invite you to our next NGS event:
*A **Joint** **University** of **Helsinki**/Genomatix Workshop on Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis*
*on Tuesday, 14 April - **Thursday, 16 April 2009*
*at the Biomedicum Helsinki.*
The workshop will cover NGS data analysis strategies, both for mRNA-Seq data as well as for ChIP-Seq.
*_Programme:_*
*Tue 14/04 (from **9 am** to **5 pm**, with breaks):*
A brief overview of 454 / Solexa / SOLiD systems
Presentations by the course participants introducing their own projects
*Wed 15/04 (from **9 am** to **4 pm**, with breaks):*
Introduction to the Genomatix NGS analysis pipeline - demo and hands-on analysis examples for ChIP-Seq and RNA-Seq
The examples are based on real world data. We will show the possibilities for extending genome annotation, splice variant detection and discovery of new transcriptional units. In addition the downstream biological mining of enriched regions from ChIP-Seq will be demonstrated. This will focus on transcription factor (TF) analysis in terms of TF overrepresentation in enriched regions and the discovery of functional motifs and patterns of TFs. New insights into biological mechanisms can be gained by overlaying data from different experiment types.
Among others the following areas will be covered
* high efficiency mapping of raw sequence tags * clustering of sequence tags (peak finding) * data integration into up to date genome annotation * down stream analysis of peak regions * calculation of expression values and profiles * global correlations of peak regions with genomic elements * transcription factor analysis and de-novo motif discovery
*Thu 16/04 (from **9 am** to **4 pm**, with breaks):*
Workshop with participants’ own NGS data
As a special offer you can bring your own data which will be analyzed on the third day of the workshop. If you are interested in that, please refer to http://www.genomatix.de/seminars/NGSdataspecs.html for supported data formats, target species, and genome builds. Due to organizational limitations, we can accept a maximum of NGS data equivalent to two lanes in a flow cell, per participant.
*_Registration:_*
*For registration, please visit the **University** of **Helsinki** registration page: *
https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/14826/lomake.html
Registration deadline is March 31, 2009; the number of participants is limited to 20.
Please note:
Our intention is that you profit in your work from this event as much as possible. Therefore, should we receive more registrations than we have seats, privilege will be given to participants who can bring supported NGS data of their own to the workshop.
We are looking forward to welcoming you and to a lively scientific exchange!
Best regards
Christian Zinser
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Dr. Christian Zinser Head of Training
Genomatix Software GmbH Bayerstrasse 85a 80335 Munich Germany
Phone +49-89-599 766 0 Fax +49-89-599 766 55 E-mail zinser@genomatix.de