Call for Participation for VARIATHON 2013 - Udine, Italy
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* Call for Participation for VARIATHON 2013 *
* http://bioinf.dimi.uniud.it/variathon *
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The goal of this pilot Variation Calling Challenge (Variathon) is to analyze existing or new pipelines for variant calling with high-throughput sequencing data in terms of accuracy and efficiency. We provide different simulated data sets for the analysis.
The input consists of a reference genome in fasta format and a set of reads in fastq format from an artificial organism with a genome similar to the reference. The output should be composed of a file containing a table of called variants (e.g., vcf format) and a file with reads mapping (e.g., bam format).
The output will be evaluated in terms of reads mapping, variants calls, and resources usage. Results will be presented at the Workshop on “NGS data and the Variation Calling Challenge” that will be held in May 2013 in Udine, Italy.
Important dates
* 15.02.2013: Submission system opens
* 15.03.2013: Submission deadline
* 29.03.2013: Performance evaluation announced
* 21.05.2013: Workshop in Udine, Italy
Organizers
Veli Mäkinen - University of Helsinki (Finland)
Alberto Policriti - University of Udine (Italy)
Eric Rivals - CNRS and Univ. Montpellier 2 (France)
Vincent Maillol - CNRS and Univ. Montpellier 2 (France)
Simone Scalabrin - IGA Technology Services (Italy)
Annie Chateau - CNRS and Univ. Montpellier 2 (France)
Krista Longi - University of Helsinki (Finland)
Nicola Vitacolonna - University of Udine (Italy)
Francesca Nadalin - University of Udine (Italy)
Support
SeqAhead COST action (http://seqahead.eu/)
* Call for Participation for VARIATHON 2013 *
* http://bioinf.dimi.uniud.it/variathon *
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The goal of this pilot Variation Calling Challenge (Variathon) is to analyze existing or new pipelines for variant calling with high-throughput sequencing data in terms of accuracy and efficiency. We provide different simulated data sets for the analysis.
The input consists of a reference genome in fasta format and a set of reads in fastq format from an artificial organism with a genome similar to the reference. The output should be composed of a file containing a table of called variants (e.g., vcf format) and a file with reads mapping (e.g., bam format).
The output will be evaluated in terms of reads mapping, variants calls, and resources usage. Results will be presented at the Workshop on “NGS data and the Variation Calling Challenge” that will be held in May 2013 in Udine, Italy.
Important dates
* 15.02.2013: Submission system opens
* 15.03.2013: Submission deadline
* 29.03.2013: Performance evaluation announced
* 21.05.2013: Workshop in Udine, Italy
Organizers
Veli Mäkinen - University of Helsinki (Finland)
Alberto Policriti - University of Udine (Italy)
Eric Rivals - CNRS and Univ. Montpellier 2 (France)
Vincent Maillol - CNRS and Univ. Montpellier 2 (France)
Simone Scalabrin - IGA Technology Services (Italy)
Annie Chateau - CNRS and Univ. Montpellier 2 (France)
Krista Longi - University of Helsinki (Finland)
Nicola Vitacolonna - University of Udine (Italy)
Francesca Nadalin - University of Udine (Italy)
Support
SeqAhead COST action (http://seqahead.eu/)
