Just to get the blog started, next week I will be attending a conference on "Finishing in the future" . This conference brings together researchers interested in ways to improve the process of finishing a genome - the laborious process aimed at correctly reconstructing every single base in the genome of an organism. This process is quite expensive, both time- and money-wise, and many current sequencing projects opt to produce a "draft" or "high-quality draft" instead of a complete (and correct) sequence. What would it take for this trend to be reversed? This is what the participants at this conference are trying to figure out.
I will be giving a keynote presentation highlighting some of the challenges encountered when attempting to automate the finishing process. I also have some ideas on how to improve the process, but more on that later.
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