Scotland-wide bioinformatics user group meeting
Last week, the CGEBM hosted the 52nd NextGenBUG meeting, marking the third time that the event has been held at the University of Aberdeen. Around 60 attendees, some travelling from all over Scotland, gathered at the Sir Duncan Rice Library to hear the afternoon of talks focussing on research using next generation sequencing technologies.
Speakers were present from the University of Aberdeen as well as from further afield. Prof. David Salt from the University of Nottingham discussed his research on the use of GWAS and ionomics to reveal the mechanisms driving arsenic accumulation and adaptation to soil salinity in plants. Michael Moseley, PhD student within the School of Biological Sciences, presented his experiences of using both clustering and denoising methods for analysis of amplicons in diagnostics of leptospira infections. Dr. Cecile Gubry-Rangin, of the University of Aberdeen, and the centre's own Dr. Sophie Shaw worked together to present the complex methodologies required both within the laboratory and on the computer for single cell genome assemblies of Thaumarchaeota. Also from the CGEBM, Dr. Antonio Ribeiro presented his development of a pipeline for analysis of BarSeq data, and the applications of this technique within research of human fungal pathogens. The afternoon was rounded off by Dr. Marius Wenzel, also from the University of Aberdeen, presenting his post-doctoral research on obtaining a genome sequence from Isopoda, using both short read and long read technologies, with the aim of finding genomic regions associated with physical morphology.
NextGenBUG meetings are held bimonthly at different institutes across Scotland to allow for users of next generation sequencing data to present research and discuss ideas and analysis techniques. For more information on the upcoming meetings, visit the NextGenBUG website.