Speaker
Erik Boncam-Rudloff
(Chairman of the European COST Action: SeqAhead, Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis Network)
Description
The technology of Next Generation Sequencing represents a new dimension for research in the Life Sciences field. The new technologies allow the sequencing of genomes and transcriptomes faster and at a much lower budget than in previous genome sequencing projects. In Europe more than 70 institutions host more than 200 of those NGS systems with a capacity to sequence about one Tera bp per day, that is the equivalent of more than 330 human genomes. This number will be increased dramatically during the next few years on one side by the increasing number of NGS systems but also by the fast developing NGS technology providing increasing sequence capacity and sequence length. The vast amount of sequence data arriving daily at the computation centers creates challenges in the informatics and bioinformatics field. In my talk I will try to describe the computational needs of the Life Science community and discuss how the use of GRID infrastructures could help in this process.
