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2010 special issue call for papers

Dear colleagues,

I invite you to submit a paper to the forthcoming special issue of Bioinformatics and Biology Insights.

About the special issue

“Next Generation Sequencing,” (NGS) has, once again, accelerated pace of data generation: unprecedented quantitites of data are generated with relative simplicity, at ever decreasing costs. Terrabyte of raw data are generated within hours at minimal costs and the new techniques are set to aid genome sequencing, transcriptomic profiling, SNP detection, metagenomic analyses and many other tasks.

All projects, however, seem to suffer from similar bottlenecks: bioinformatics personnel and technology. New algorithms are required for rapid processing, assembly, error correction, profile comparison, SNP detection and so forth.

Ultimately, it is still unclear how the mass of data will be best converted into biological insights: will NGS complement or even replace Sanger technology, qPCR or microrarrays or all of these?

Or will NGS be replaced in the near future by yet another technology?

Acordingly, this call for papers encourages, but is not limited to the following subjects:

• NGS technologies: How do they work, how do they compare
• Practical issues of sampling probes
• Assembly programmes: how do they work? Do they work for NGS data?
• A comparison of assembly programs: Scope, demands, performance
• De novo sequencing of bacteria using NGS
• Mapping reads on existing eukaryotic backbone genomes
• De novo sequencing of eukaryotes using NGS: the distant shore?
• Quality of transcription profiling: comparison to qPCR, EST, microarrays; consistency and base call accuracy; comparison between technologies
• Methods for differential expression analysis
• Genome analysis w/ NGS: detecting and distinbuishing repeats, CNVs, paralogs, isoforms
• Analysing NGS data for evolutionary ecology: SNP detection, SSRs etc.
• Data management, analysis pipelines and visualisation of NGS data
• Case studies
• Prospects: future developments of technology and costs
• From information to knowledge: biological insights gained

• Registration of manuscripts: 1 May 2010
  
  
• Manuscripts submitted: 1 May to 1 June 2010
  
  
• Completion of peer review: circa 1 July 2010
  
  
• Resubmission of revised manuscripts: circa 1 September 2010