EMBRACE workshop “NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING II”

Abstract

After the success of the EMBRACE (1) workshop on "Building Next Generation Sequencing platforms and pipeline solutions" in Rome in November 2009 with more that 60 international participants (2), the organization committee decided to try to organize at least two such events each year to keep pace of the fast development of the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology and the tools and methods to analyse and interpret the data produced. This is the report of the “NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING II” workshop in in Ruvo di Puglia in June 2010.