This meeting is postponed. More details to follow.
Scientific Discussion meeting organised by Professor Mark Achtman FRS, Professor Kathryn Holt and Professor David Aanensen.
GrapeTree of 1610 Ebola genomes from the West African epidemic of 2013–2016. Credit: from Fig. 3 in Zhou et al., Genome research 28, 1395-1404 (2018)
The comparative genomics of microbial pathogens from all domains of life has become a big data problem. Databases already contain >200,000 assembled genomes from single species but adequate tools to reveal population structures are in their infancy. This meeting will bring together world-class bioinformaticians with experts on bacterial and viral genomes to illustrate multiple approaches to solving this challenge.
Information on the speakers and programme is available below. Speaker abstracts will be available closer to the meeting. Recorded audio of the presentations will be available on this page after the meeting has taken place. Meeting papers will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
Attending the event
This meeting is postponed. More details to follow.
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