[Colloquium] Reminder: Seminar Announcement: Algorithms and Services for Genome Assembly

[Ninfa Mayorga]

~Reminder~

Computation Institute Presentation

Speaker: Fangfang Xia, Assistant Computer Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Date: July 25, 2013
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location:  University of Chicago, Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Ave.  This talk will be broadcast via Adobe Connect (see below)

Algorithms and Services for Genome Assembly

Abstract:
Genome assembly is the process of reconstructing entire DNA sequences from fragmentary input. While high-throughput sequencing technology has revolutionized the field of genomic science, assembly, often the first step of many bioinformatics pipelines, remains a computationally expensive problem which is further compounded by the difficulty to evaluate its accuracy. In this talk, I will describe the assembly algorithms, applications and practices. I will focus on a parallel tool we have developed for metagenomic assembly and discuss how it could be improved by building on a kmer-matching library. Finally, I will touch on an extensible pipeline service we are developing to help users find the best assembly.

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