Wednesday February 8th we got a head start on the conference when two workshops were held at the botanical gardens at the Natural History Museum. The “Genome Assembly, Validation and Curation” workshop, led by Ole Kristian Tørresen and Benedicte Garmann-Aarhus, took place at Lids Hus, which was previously known as the Botanical Museum. Here, researchers from all the major Norwegian universities, and multiple foreign research institutions, participated.
The workshop attendees got hands-on instructions from the lecturers, and learned how to create reference genomes of Earth BioGenome Project-standards. This is the second time EBP has hosted an assembly workshop, and yet again it received good reviews from the participants.
If you are interested in the workshop materials, click this link. And if you want to participate in future iterations of the “Genome Assembly, Validation and Curation” workshop, stay tuned to our website, where we will post information about upcoming events.