News:Pan-Structural Variation hackathon in the Cloud!

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[Medhat]

Everything is bigger in Texas: Pan-Structural Variation hackathon in the Cloud!

The “Structural Variant Crying Club” is pleased to announce the next round of Structural Variants in the Cloud Hackathon teaming up with Pangenomes!

• Precision medicine

• Incorporation of population data to a reference graph

• Mapping structural variants to public databases

• Building genome graphs representing population SVs

• Calculating the heritability of different types of structural variants

• CNV effect on isoform expression

• Incorporation of Public Annotation Databases with Graphs

• Assembly accuracy for metagenomics

• Develop a pipeline for submission of non-graph associated read assemblies to a public sequence database.

• Quality assessment in large cohorts

• Develop efficient query mechanisms from graph genomes

• Assessing the benefits of graph genomes in clinical analysis

Interested?!

Please follow this link for more information and to apply:

https://www.hgsc.bcm.edu/events/hackathon

[GenoMax]

Medhat : Change the classification to news since this is not really a discussion post but an announcement.

There is a typo in this phrase Structural Variant Crying Club?

[Medhat]

Thanks a lot for letting me know, highly appreciate that :).
Structural Variant Crying Club no typo it is right!! :D

[GenoMax]

Just checking to be sure :-)

[Medhat]

Thanks, hope that you can join us, it will be a lot of work and fun.