Seventh Annual RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics (2009)
Sunday-Tuesday, September 27-29, 2009
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Budapest, Hungary
Comparison of related genomes offers enormous inferential power,
revealing a wealth of knowledge about genome evolution itself and
about genetic function and cellular processes. As the number of
fully sequenced genomes grows, so do the opportunities and
challenges for computational comparative genomics.
This workshop brings together leading researchers in the
mathematical, computational and life sciences to discuss cutting
edge research in comparative genomics, with an emphasis on
computational approaches and novel experimental results. The
program
will include a combination of
keynote speakers
and
contributed talks.
Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to
- Algorithms in comparative genomics
- Comparative study of orthologous genes
- Gene finding using multiple genomes
- Sequence homology
- Genome rearrangements
- Measures of evolutionary distance
- Whole genome phylogeny reconstruction
- Sequence assembly using sequence comparison
- Multiple genome alignment
- Gene and genome duplication
- Identification of conserved and fast evolving sequences
Conference chairs:
Francesca Ciccarelli (Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics of Cancer, Milan)
István Miklós (Rényi Institute, Budapest)