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We are happy to announce that the first lecture of our Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network Summer School 2024 is now available on YouTube! If you missed the Summer School… Continue reading Summer School Lectures available online

Save the date: 21 November | Thursday | 11:00 CEST Join us in our webinar to hear from Miquel Vila-Farré about the evolution of regeneration, specifially in planarians of the… Continue reading NGS Webinar November II 2024

Save the date: 07 November | Thursday | 11:00 CEST Join us in our webinar to hear from Sebastian Eguiguren how the zebrafish brain shows significant regenerative capacity! Using single-cell… Continue reading NGS Webinar November 2024

Save the date: 10 October | Thursday | 11:00 CEST Join us on the webinar, where Dr. Francy Johanna Pérez LLanos will be sharing co-first author insights on the nature… Continue reading NGS Webinar October 2024

In this Special Episode of the Explain Podcast, our hosts had a pleasure to chat with Florian Kraft about Long-read and Short-read sequencing techniques. As you know, there are bright… Continue reading Explain Podcast Special Episode 4: Long vs Short Reads

Olga Brovkina will join us for our next webinar in September. Join us on September 5th at 11 and hear more about intestinal microbiota and IgA-seq. Register here!

NGS-CN has exciting changes in the annual meetings – from this year on, each October we’ll meet AGD colleagues in Bonn! Scientific Program is almost settled – but the registration… Continue reading NGS-CN Meeting 2024 – with AGD

Our on-site Bio Data Science Evenings at University of Düsseldorf are happy to host Florian Kraft, who will discuss an important question… WHY size matters when we talk about “sequencing… Continue reading Bio Data Science Evening August

Explain Podcast moves towards discussing MGI sequencing…and not only. Did you know they have the whole sequencing room available? Fancy! At the end of each episode, we now release QuickGen,… Continue reading Explain Podcast Episode 11 is out!

In our next webinar Natja Haag from Aachen will tell us all about pain mechanisms and how they are working on deciphering them using singlecell sequencing methods. Join us on… Continue reading NGS Webinar July 2024

This June we have not one but two NGS webinars for you! In our second webinar, Denny Popp from Leipzig, will talk about longread sequencing in clinical applications. Join us… Continue reading NGS Webinar June II 2024

Online NGS-CN Summer School “Sequencing Fundamentals & Bioinformatics” 9 – 10 September | online Open for everybody – don’t miss a chance to listen & ask experts! REGISTER HERE On-site NGS-CN… Continue reading NGS-CN Summer School 2024

Season 2 of the Explain Podcast is out&about – yey! We start by discussing Bionano and Nabsys – curious tech that we’ve classified as…Genome Mapping! At the end of each… Continue reading Explain Podcast Episode 10 is out!

Ana Conesa is one of the leading specialists in RNA transcript isoform sequencing. She and her partners pioneered the implementation of novel longread Sequencing technologies – both PacBio and Oxford… Continue reading NGS Webinar June I 2024

Our on-site Bio Data Science Evenings at University of Düsseldorf are back! 13 June | Thursday | 17:00+ at O.A.S.E. Register here and come meet fellow biodata enthusiasts on-site, learn… Continue reading Bio Data Science Evening June

How much do you actually know about the heartache? Can you tell what’s the link between heartache and transcriptomics? On Thursday the 23rd May at 11:00 CEST Mirela Balan will introduce… Continue reading NGS Webinar May 2024

…here comes our next NGS Webinar! On the 25th April Thursday at 11:00 CEST Prof. Dr. Stephan Ossowski will give us a glimpse on how rare disease diagnostics in complex… Continue reading NGS Webinar April 2024

Great news! Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – German Research Foundation offers additional opportunities to apply for funding high sequencing costs projects together with academic sequencing institutions. Sequencing projects with costs in… Continue reading New funding opportunities for sequencing projects!

The last Episode of the first Season is out&about!We explore three prominent SINGLE CELL sequencing techniques using frameworks of 10x Genomics | Parse Biosciences | BD. Find it on Spotify or Deezer

In this Explain Podcast special episode we explore the PhiX bacteriophage and its role in sequencing the first DNA-based genome, as well as unique molecular modifiers and something sequencing definitely always needs:… Continue reading Explain Podcast Special Episode 3

The West German Genome Center (WGGC) will be funded by the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen in 2024-2025. The WGGC was founded in 2019 as a joint competence center for state-of-the-art… Continue reading New Funding for WGGC

Listen to our freshly released PacBio episode – we’re happy to offer you edutainment while you’re packing presents or enjoying a walk outside! Find it on Spotify or Deezer Supported… Continue reading Explain Podcast Episode 7 is out!

Find it on Spotify or Deezer Supported by the West German Genome Center and Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network, we’re dedicated to discuss genomics & transcriptomics research in the way… Continue reading Explain Podcast Episode 6 is out!

🎧 Exciting! Episode 5 of the Explain Podcast is out, this time we prepare the ground to dive into the Illumina Sequencing. Special attention is on multicolor chemistry and signal… Continue reading Explain Podcast Episode 5 is out!

In this Explain Podcast episode explore with us Iontorrent sequencing – how this technique works? Is it still used and where? Which ions are we talking about and where they come from?… Continue reading Explain Podcast Episode 4 is out!

Exciting news from our WGGC experts! The small variant calling benchmarking initiative by the NGS-CN and the GHGA is out and waiting for scientific feedback. Publication Link: https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.140344.1 Publication Highlights:… Continue reading Exciting Update on Genomic Benchmarking!

In this Explain Podcast episode explore with us – polonies, base jokers….ligation! Listen to our podcast and we’re happy to receive your feedback&questions via Email (podcast[dot]explain[at]ngs-kn[dot]de). ___The Explain Podcast is… Continue reading Explain Podcast Episode 3 is out!

In this Explain Podcast SPECIAL episode it’s time to dive into kitchen… genomics! Yes, your eyes don’t lie to you – we’ll isolate hosts DNA using household ingredients. On record. Check what… Continue reading Explain Podcast Special Episode 1 is out!

In this Explain Podcast episode we are diving into Pyrosequencing! Daniel and Iuliia are confused about fireflies… Here some useful resources! – Scientific american on how fireflies create light:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-and-why-do-fireflies/– A… Continue reading Explain Podcast Episode 2 is out!

Join us for the Explain Podcast debut episode “Basics – from DNA to Sanger sequencing”! Get ready to witness a podcasting adventure like no other! Iuliia takes the brave leap… Continue reading Explain Podcast Episode 1 is out!

Are you curious about the technology that largely contributes to our present & future? Look no further! The Explain Podcast TEASER is out&about! In this short preview, we offer a… Continue reading Listen to the Explain Podcast Teaser!

Our annual NGS-CN Workshop is on the way!For those who can’t make it to the on site internal part in Tübingen, NGS-CN Workshop will have an external hybrid part (14th April) between 9:45… Continue reading NGS-CN Workshop 2023 in Tübingen -hybrid meeting

The seminar aims to provide insights into the latest technologies in scRNAseq and multiomics, which are essential to understand gene regulation and single-cell heterogeneity. The program includes an introduction to… Continue reading BD Single-Cell Multiomics Day – Join us on 21st March in Bonn and Online!

LRS was selected as the method of the year 2022 by Nature Methods! This highlights the success of LRS in unraveling the dark regions of the human genome as part… Continue reading Method of the Year 2022: long-read sequencing

Join the Single Cell research community at this conference on November 7-9 in Bonn, with organizers and speakers from the WGGC community. More details and registration at the official conference… Continue reading Single Cell Omics in Clinical Applications SCOG Conference

When: Tuesday, 11th of October | 17:00-18:00 CESTWhere: O.A.S.E. (University Hospital Düsseldorf) Dr. rer. nat. Alexander Lang will share with us “Multiple single cell sequencing methodsfor multimodal characterization of cardiovascular disease”… Continue reading Bio Data Science Evening in Düsseldorf

The “Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Gen-Diagnostik e.V.” will be hosting their next annual meeting in Bonn and virtual, on October 06-07. The AGD Annual Meeting is dedicated to topics that have particular… Continue reading Annual AGD Meeting 2022: “Genomic Health and the Blockchain”

UPDATE: You can find here the full schedule of the online training.Last minute registration requests should be addressed to  Maximilian Krause maximilian.krause1 [AT] tu-dresden {dot} de, please note that only valid… Continue reading NGS-CN Autumn School 2022

Our partner site DZNE (Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases) in Bonn is hosting a Nature Conference on AI, Neuroscience and Hardware: From Neural to Artificial… Continue reading Nature Conference: AI, Neuroscience and Hardware: From Neural to Artificial Systems and Back Again

This workshop is aimed at researchers from all areas of the life sciences who are interested in NGS technologies and data analysis. Young scientists are particularly welcome. The workshop includes… Continue reading Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN) Workshop; Registration is open!

25-26 of April 2022, Seminaris Hotel in Bad Honnef : A symposium addressing the future significance of NGS-based omics technologies. Please see here for more info & registration https://decoi.eu/decoi-presents-genomics-beyond-covid-19-in-germany/

Within the current funding initiative on next generation sequencing (NGS) of the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), the DFG invites, in its fifth round, proposals for… Continue reading The 5th call of DFG for sequencing costs in projects is open!

Unfortunately, due to the current pandemic situation, we decided to cancel the 3rd NGS-CN workshop at the Dresden Concept Genome Center. We will inform you about the possible new dates.… Continue reading Cancellation of the 3rd NGS-CN workshop

Update 17.11.2021 Due to the current pandemic situation the NGS-CN Workshop in Dresden is canceled. It is planned to postpone the meeting. We will inform you soon about possible new… Continue reading [CANCELED] 3rd NGS-CN Workshop

The WGGC Bonn is looking for a Scientific Officer to replace Dr. Succurro during her maternity leave. The position (100% TV-L 13) would start on December 1st 2021 or the… Continue reading Job openining (maternity leave replacement)

The WGGC core facility in Düsseldorf, the Genomics and Transcriptomics Lab, has currently an opening for a *Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) as NGS Sequencing Expert*. See the details in the job… Continue reading Job openings!

The Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network is organizing the summer school titled “Understanding Next Generation Sequencing from molecule to output data” from September 13-15th, 2021, tailored for MSc and PhD… Continue reading 2021 NGS Summer School

The 4th DFG call for funding of sequencing costs is out! Important facts and dates: Only scientific projects with a medium to large sized demand (€100,000 to €1 million) of… Continue reading Fourth NGS DFG call

The SIG1/2 “Public outreach and teaching” is happy to announce the launch of the NGS webinar series! Starting on January 7th 2021, we will regularly meet on the first Thursday… Continue reading The NGS webinar series

We are delighted to announce that the DFG decided to further support NGS research in Germany and the NGS-CN is extended for two additional years. We will keep providing NGS… Continue reading The DFG extended the NGS-CN

The one-day virtual workshop will provide an overview of the latest updates and developments in the field of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) as presented by the NGS Competence Network (NGS-CN)… Continue reading Invitation to the Next Generation Sequencing Network online workshop

Bonn, December 17–18 2020 **Please note the update: the meeting will be online only** Topic: Genomics for Health Dear Members and Friends of the AGD, This year everything is different… Continue reading Invitation to the Annual Meeting of the AGD 2020

Jennifer V Gerbracht et al. “CASC3 promotes transcriptome-wide activation of nonsense-mediated decay by the exon junction complex”, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 48, Issue 15, 04 September 2020, Pages 8626–8644, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa564 The NGS… Continue reading A new publication from the 1st DFG NGS call is out!

Erger, F., Nörling, D., Borchert, D. et al. cfNOMe — A single assay for comprehensive epigenetic analyses of cell-free DNA. Genome Med 12, 54 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-020-00750-5 cfNOMe is a two-in-one method… Continue reading The first publication from the 1st DFG NGS call is out!

The NGS Competence Centers launched the German COVID-19 OMICS Initiative DeCOI in collaboration with many national research institutes to use Omics technologies to tackle the challenges posed by the COVID-19… Continue reading The German COVID-19 OMICS Initiative

In view of the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on research activities, the DFG has extended the submission deadline for the full application for the NGS-Call 3 from 9 June… Continue reading NGS-Call 3 submission deadline for full applications has been extended by the DFG

We will inform you about the new date in due time. We thank you for your understanding.

Join us in Cologne on April the 1st for the last of the three WGGC2020- News & Views Meetings! This event is a great opportunity to connect with the WGGC… Continue reading WGGC2020 Cologne – Registration open now!

A successful start into 2020 with WGGC events in Bonn! On January 14th, more than 80 participants gathered for the WGGC2020 News&Views at the Biomedical Center BMZ in Bonn, located… Continue reading WGGC2020 BONN

Registration to our January events is now open! Join us in Bonn on January 14th for the WGGC2020 News&Views meeting and attend the Webinar Workshop on the art of writing… Continue reading JANUARY EVENTS

In the first months of 2020 we will hold three “WGGC2020 News & Views” Meetings, one at each core site, to connect with the scientific community and share both the… Continue reading WGGC2020 NEWS&VIEWS

The 3rd DFG call for funding of sequencing costs is out! Important facts and dates: Only scientific projects with a medium to large sized demand (€100,000 to €1 million) of… Continue reading THIRD CALL

On the 27th of September 2019, the SIGs of the WGGC met in Potsdam, Germany, to discuss their activities of 2019 and their plans for 2020. The WGGC SIGs workshop… Continue reading POTSDAM WORKSHOP