I am working with collaborators at BitesizeBio.com (founder Nick Oswald) to organize a webinar series around NGS topics, and I am looking for expert speakers. The topics can be somewhat flexible depending on the speaker's interest and expertise, but I am envisioning the following general areas:
1. Sequencing tech overview, comparing/contrasting the current gen 454/SOLiD/Illumina/Polonator/Helicos, chemistry overview, application strengths/weaknesses, third gen overview.
2. Library prep methods, library types (frag, mate, PE), enrichment technologies, overview of molecular steps (shear, repair, ligate, amplify, emulsion/cluster, etc), fragmentation technologies, quantitation, troubleshooting
3. Intro to informatics...file formats (fastq, SAM/BAM, etc), data volumes, archive strategies, open software packages, aligner comparisons, galaxy, visualization tools, impact of the cloud,
4. Informatics applications, DNA based (snp detection, CNV, structural variation, phasing), RNA based (tag counting, TSS mapping, splice isoforms), ChIP-SEQ, etc. What software, what are pitfalls of analyses, etc. (this could spawn an entire series on it's own).
The format of the talks will be <=30 minutes, with audio over slides. This effort is in collaboration with http://bitesizebio.com/, and talks will be hosted and displayed at both SEQanswers and BitesizeBio. Our two sites will be jointly providing a $500 honorarium to each speaker. Each seminar will (hopefully) be sponsored by some to-be-determined industrial entity.
Please post below if you're interested or want more info, this forum will be used to organize and disseminate information about the webinars. Comments, suggestions, or complaints welcomed! Thanks for reading.
-=Eric (ECO)
1. Sequencing tech overview, comparing/contrasting the current gen 454/SOLiD/Illumina/Polonator/Helicos, chemistry overview, application strengths/weaknesses, third gen overview.
2. Library prep methods, library types (frag, mate, PE), enrichment technologies, overview of molecular steps (shear, repair, ligate, amplify, emulsion/cluster, etc), fragmentation technologies, quantitation, troubleshooting
3. Intro to informatics...file formats (fastq, SAM/BAM, etc), data volumes, archive strategies, open software packages, aligner comparisons, galaxy, visualization tools, impact of the cloud,
4. Informatics applications, DNA based (snp detection, CNV, structural variation, phasing), RNA based (tag counting, TSS mapping, splice isoforms), ChIP-SEQ, etc. What software, what are pitfalls of analyses, etc. (this could spawn an entire series on it's own).
The format of the talks will be <=30 minutes, with audio over slides. This effort is in collaboration with http://bitesizebio.com/, and talks will be hosted and displayed at both SEQanswers and BitesizeBio. Our two sites will be jointly providing a $500 honorarium to each speaker. Each seminar will (hopefully) be sponsored by some to-be-determined industrial entity.
Please post below if you're interested or want more info, this forum will be used to organize and disseminate information about the webinars. Comments, suggestions, or complaints welcomed! Thanks for reading.
-=Eric (ECO)
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