Invited Keynote The African Orphan Crops Consortium, alleviating stunting due to malnutrition one crop at a time Bernice WaweruThe African Orphan Crops Consortium (AOCC) is a gl... #long reads #genome assembly #plant genomics
Revealing interactions between coding and non-coding transcripts in plants using heterogeneous networks Joel Robertson, Stephen Davis, Nitin Mantri, Alice JohnstoneOnce thought to be junk genetic material, non-codi... #transcriptomics #non-coding RNA #networks #graph algorithms #plants
Session Talk New insights into plant-microbe interactions through Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) mapping Charlotte FrancoisLike humans, plants are colonised by bacteria on v... #microbiome #plants #QTL #sequence variation #statistics #bacteria
Invited Keynote Challenges and Opportunities for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in Plant Science Seung RheePlants make up the biggest biotic component of the... #gene function #gene annotation #single cell #genomics #plants
Session Talk Assessing PacBio long reads and de novo genome assembly tools for useability and suitability to applications where resources are limited. Chelsea Matthews, Nathan Watson-HaighDue to the further development of long read sequen... #genome assembly #long reads #benchmarking
An Open Platform for Cannabis Genomics Research Locedie Mansueto, Ramil Mauleon, Tobias Kretzschmar, Graham KingRecent global appreciation of the therapeutic prop... #Cannabis #plants #genomics #open source
A workflow for the detection and phylogenetic placement of eukaryotes from metagenomes Heroen Verbruggen, Bobbie ShabanMicrobial eukaryotes (protists) play key roles in ... #metagenomics #phylogenetics #phylogenomics #plants
A high-quality reference genome for the plant pathogen, Phytophthora cinnamomi Amy Longmuir, Peter Beech, Mark RichardsonThe plant pathogen, Phytophthora cinnamomi results... #pathogens #long reads #plants
