Sergey Koren - Producing Highly-Contiguous, Complete, Telomere to Telomere Genome Assemblies

Dr Sergey Koren from the National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, USA, presenting on the latest technologies applied to producing highly-contiguous, complete, telomere to telomere genome assemblies. Sergey has developed widely used genome analysis software, such as Canu, Merqury and Salsa.

We’re excited to draw on the experience of Sergey and his team, which we know will contribute to our work into building capabilities in New Zealand, and in particular developing genomic solutions useful to the NZ genomics research community that are applicable to our biological industries. This is an excellent opportunity to hear about the software and the work being done with them in the United States.

Sergey received his PhD in computer science in 2012 under the supervision of Mihai Pop at the University of Maryland.
He joined the National Bioforensics Analysis Center in 2011 and was appointed as an associate principal investigator in 2014.During this time, he pioneered the use of single-molecule sequencing for the reconstruction of complete genomes.

In 2015, he joined the National Human Genome Research Institute as a founding member of the Genome Informatics Section.
His research focuses on the efficient analysis of large-scale genomic datasets and new methods for metagenomic analysis and assembly of high-noise single-molecule sequencing data.

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[DuarteMolha]

When will chrY be added ... And when will this officially replace GRCh38