The PANGAIA 2nd Annual Workshop on Computational Pangenomics will take place after WABI 2022 in Potsdam, September 7-9. The workshop will consist of keynotes, invited talks and networking events around the topic of computational pangenomics.

Keynotes:

• Christina Boucher
• Paul Medvedev
• Gene Myers

Invited talks:

• Rayan Chikhi
• Camille Marchet
• Erin K. Molloy
• Knut Reinert
• Mathias Weller

Schedule

Wednesday, September 7

• Leena Salmela: Efficient solutions to biological problems using de Bruijn graphs
• Knut Reinert: Hierarchical Interleaved Bloom Filter: Enabling ultrafast, approximate sequence queries
• PANGAIA network meeting, part I (Paola Bonizzoni)
• Social event: Boat tour including dinner and drinks

Thursday, September 8

• PANGAIA network meeting, part II (Paola Bonizzoni)
• Camille Marchet: Round table discussion
• Mathias Weller: Peer Community in bioinformatics
• Christina Boucher: Computational Problems in Metagenomic Amplification
• Erin K. Molloy: Recent advances and open challenges in estimating evolutionary histories from low-homoplasy markers
• Rayan Chikhi: Metagenome assembly and analysis
• Paul Medvedev: The theoretical analysis of sequencing bioinformatic algorithms
• Open problems session (Travis Gagie)

Friday, September 9

• Hackathon (Rayan Chikhi)
• Gene Myers: High Fidelity Genome Sequencing: What have we been missing?

The full schedule is available here.