CPGR Plant Pathogen Genomics, Bioinformatics, and Diagnostics Workshop - March 21-22,2007

Workshop Lectures

  • An Overview of DNA Sequencing and Assembly -
  • Genome Sequence Quality -
  • Introduction to Genome Annotation -
  • A Comprehensive Genome-based Diagnostics Resource and Pipeline for Identification of Threatening Plant Pathogens -
  • Steps in Diagnostic Marker Development -
  • Validating Protocols and Assays For Diagnostics of Plant Pathogens (Dr. Kurt Zeller, USDA) -

Workshop Tutorials

  • Interpreting Sequencing Traces -
  • Evaluating Loci to be Candidate Diagnostic Markers -
  • Using Web Based Bioinformatics Tools to Validate a Marker -
  • Interpreting Diagnostic Data using e-PCR and BLAST -

Links to resources mentioned in the tutorials are available here: CPGR Workshop Tutorial Links

CPGR Workshop Photographs

CPGR Workshop Participants - TIGR, Rockville, MD - March, 2007

Joint Technology Center (JTC) Tour

More information about the JTC can be found on the JCVI website

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Workshop Session Photos

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