Next Generation Sequencing

We will be conducting a workshop on NGS data analysis and visualization at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference XX in San Diego, January 17, 2012.

We will present an overview of CLC Genomics Workbench, and cover the features of de novo assembly, RNA-Seq, and our resequencing tool using Genomics Gateway in more detail. Genomics Gateway is our new framework for visualizing, combining and analyzing whole genome data.

Our invited speakers - Prof. Juan F. Medrano, Animal Genomics Laboratory, UC Davis and Prof. Claude dePamphilis, Biology Department, Penn State University - are recognized experts within the field of genomics, and will provide their inputs on how they use our tools in their research.
Please join us for interactive presentations from 1:30 to 3:40 pm on January 17 in the Golden West room at the Town and Country Convention Center in San Diego.

In November month’s newsletter we launched a survey where all respondents would enter a draw for an iPad. Yesterday we found the winner and it’s Michael Lauck from David O’Connors lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison - congratulations!

Here’s a couple of insights from the survey:

• Academic 70.4%, Biotech 7.8%, Pharma 0.9%, Governmental 8.3%, Medical 6.2% and Other 6.4%
• 58% of all the respondents work with NGS analysis an a regular basis
• 18% have one in-house NGS instrument, whereas 29% have between 2-5 instruments. 5% have more than 5 instruments and the rest didn’t have any!

Thanks to everyone who participated!