European Science Foundation – COST action| Thursday | 24th March |
| 09.30 | Registration |
| 10.00 | Welcome |
| 10.15 | Keynote – RNA-Seq for evolutionary studies in tomato by José Jiménéz-Gomez, Max-Planck-Institute Köln |
| 11.15 | break and coffee |
| 11.30 | Analysis of miRNA expression profiles in tissue samples by next generation sequencing by Kui Qian et al., University of Helsinki |
| 12.15 | lunch (on site catering) |
| 13.30 | Keynote – The next generation RNA-ome – platforms and technologies by Petri Auvinen, University of Helsinki |
| 14.30 | Determining the genetic contribution to transcript variation through RNA deep sequencing by Mathieu Clément-Ziza et al., Technische Universität Dresden |
| 15.30 | break and coffee |
| 16.00 | RNAseq Quality Control with ENCODE by Angelika Merkel, Centre de Regulació Genňmica (CRG) , Barcelona |
| 17.00 | wrap up |
| 17.15 | conference day closes |
| 19.00 | dinner in town |
| Friday | 25th March |
| 10.00 | Keynote – Simulating RNA-Seq Skylines by Micha Sammeth, Centre Nacional d'Anŕlisi Genňmica, Barcelona |
| 11.00 | break and coffee |
| 11.15 | Classification of Coverage Patterns by Stefanie Tauber et al., CIBIV, Vienna |
| 12.15 | lunch (on site catering) |
| 13.30 | Keynote – The Ins and Outs of Read Mappers by Hannes Ponstingl, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge |
| 14.30 | Improving RNA-Seq precision by exploiting gene models by Paweł P. Łabaj et al., Boku University Vienna |
| 15.30 | break and coffee |
| 16.00 | Identifying wrongly mapped reads via majority vote of several scoring schemata by Fritz Sedlazeck et al., CIBIV, Vienna |
| 17.00 | wrap up and outlook |
| 17.15 | conference day closes |
| 19.00 | optional dinner in town (own expenses) |
| Saturday | 26th March |
| 10.00 | Strategy session I - introduction |
| 10.15 | break out into subject groups |
| 11.45 | coffee or lunch (on site) |
| 12.15 | Strategy session II - report/exchange |
| 12.45 | groups of potential collaborators |
| 14.15 | wrap up |
| 14.30 | close of conference |
The social program will include a joint dinner at a typical local Austrian restaurant (Heuriger).
