Dear all,
Greetings from a mostly disconnected East Africa[*]!
Thanks all who attended the CoP Bioinformatics meeting last week. I think a lot of interesting points were brought up.
Rather than distributing a document with minutes, let me send out a string of emails (one per topic, for easier follow-up) with open ends that were brought up.
Do chime in if you have additions or answers!
Ahead of this, here's my recollection of activities mentioned in the "stand-up round", i.e. things that people are working on / would like to learn more about / will be working on:
- Streptococcus pneumoniae pipeline - Klebsiella pneumoniae, hypermucous - Hybrid Illumina / Nanopore assembly - Novel sequence types found in clinical isolates - New resistance genes - Vaccination targets - Standardised cut-offs for detection - QA, assembly quality analysis - Repeated sequences detection - Evolutionary biogenetics - Microbial metagenomics
Kind regards, Marco
[*] Apparently there was a break in the deep sea connection to South-Africa yesterday morning, and most East African internet traffic is now being redirected through Madagascar - at crawling speed. Good to see that old fashioned email still mostly makes it through! :-)