Traditionally the conference is dedicated to fields of genomic, metagenomic, transcriptomic and virome analysis. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

• Sequencing technologies
• Molecular sequence analysis
• Computational genomics
• Genome assembly
• Transcriptomics
• Metagenomics
• Viromics
• CRISPR
• Natural Product Discovery

The conference will be accompanied by a 2-day workshop on metagenomic data analysis. Workshop includes practices in metagenomic data annotation using MGnify.

Invited Speakers:

• Jonathan Eisen, UC Davis
• Rob Finn, EMBL-EBI
• Paul Jensen, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Layla Oesper, Carleton College
• Teresa Przytycka, NCBI
• Nikolai Ravin, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences