Dear, The Bioinformatics and Systems Biology division of the Department of Plant Systems Biology (VIB -- Ghent University, Belgium) is organizing a scientific event from the 25th of November 2012 until the 5th of December 2012 about *Generation and Analysis of Next Generation Sequence (NGS) data*. This two-week workshop is sponsored by the *European Science Foundation (ESF)*, and will discuss recent advances and future perspectives in next generation sequence analysis, together with the necessary applications on the data of user submitted projects. The workshop is open to participants from across Europe, and is *fully reimbursed* (see http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/ngs_workshop/workshop/registration) through the ESF. Applicants will need to fill in a one page motivation letter which will allow us to identify individuals with suitable bioinformatics experience. The deadline to submit an application is August 15. Please visit http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/ngs_workshop/ for more information. kind regards, The organizing commitee PS: Can this information also be spread to interested European colleagues not subscribed to the BBC-list?NGS workshop -- ================================================================== Michiel Van Bel PhD student Tel:+32 (0)9 331 36 95 fax:+32 (0)9 3313809 VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University Technologiepark 927, 9052 Gent, BELGIUM mibel@psb.vib-ugent.be http://www.psb.vib-ugent.be http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be ==================================================================