We're excited to be a part of the 12th annual SFAF in Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 16-18. The three-day conference covers NGS and its applications and in particular how these are playing a significant role in the genomics field.
We’re delighted to invite you to our traditional pre-conference workshop at this year’s annual “Sequencing, Finishing and Analysis in the Future Meeting” (SFAF) 2017. The four-hour workshop offers hands-on training in the QIAGEN CLC Genomics ProSuite. Based on CLC Genomics Workbench, this amazing software bundle provides tools and workflows optimized for metagenomics, microbiome profiling, pathogen typing and genome-based outbreak investigations. The training includes a complimentary trial software license and covers many features, from how to analyze metagenomic data to ways of detecting pathogens in a metagenomic sample.
Topic: Microbial genomics and metagenomics software training (includes complementary trial license)
Date/time: Monday, May 15, 4.00 p.m. – 8.00 p.m. MDT
Location: Santa Fe Room, La Fonda Hotel
Speaker: Dr. Arne Materna, Director of Microbial Solutions, QIAGEN
We look forward to meeting you at SFAF in Santa Fe.
We recently attended the 11th annual Sequencing, Finishing and Analysis in the Future (SFAF) meeting, hosted by Los Alamos National Laboratory and held in Santa Fe, NM, also known as “The City Different.” With an emphasis on genome sequencing, assembly, and applications of NGS, it was an action-packed three days of meetings, demos, poster presentations, and networking.
On the afternoon before SFAF started, QIAGEN Bioinformatics hosted a successful workshop for 30 attendees, which provided hands-on training on our Microbial Genomics Pro Suite. This user-friendly, scalable solution includes CLC Genomics Workbench and a series of plugins, enabling microbiologists to fully optimize the microbial genomics and metagenomics analytical workflow. Our session included an introduction to the capabilities of the solution, including metagenomics workflows, pathogen typing, and outbreak analysis. Resources for this training are available on our website and include an explanatory video, entitled “Introduction to Metadata Handling for CLC Microbial Genomics Module.”
SFAF 2016 was a wonderful event, bringing us the chance to strengthen existing relationships and meet researchers who are using our solutions on fascinating projects. It also brought us the opportunity to discuss benchmarks for our microbial genomics solution. We are looking forward to following up with our new contacts — some of whose work we hope to feature on this blog and share with you in the not-too-distant future.
Learn More about our Microbial Genomics Solution
The 11th Sequencing, Finishing and Analysis in the Future (SFAF) annual meeting will be held June 1-3, 2016 in Santa Fe, NM.
The SFAF meeting - dedicated to bringing together experts in the genomics field - focuses on laboratory methods and computational tools used to help sequence, assemble, and finish genomes.
Our team will introduce our bioinformatics solution for microbial genomics during workshop activities, a tech talk, and a poster presentation.
Workshop
Our pre-SFAF workshop will take place on Tuesday May 31 at 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m in the Santa Fe Room at the La Fonda Hotel.
We offer hands-on training on our Microbial Genomics Pro Suite, which includes CLC Genomics Workbench and a series of plugins that add tools and workflows optimised for microbial genomics and metagenomics. The training includes a free trial and covers
Tech talk
"Analysis of The Functional Contents of Microbial Communities Using a Novel QIAGEN Bioinformatics Pipeline" by Andreas Sand
Poster presentation
"Analysis of Microbial Functions using CLC Microbial Genomics Module" by Marta Matvienko
We're looking forward to seeing you in Santa Fe!
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