Sante Gnerre from the Broad Institute speaks on the challenge of developing high quality assemblies of large genomes using short reads at the "Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future" meeting in Santa Fe, NM on May 28, 2009.

Pavel Pevzner of UC San Diego spoke about "De Novo Sequencing with Short Reads" on March 26, 2009 during the 4th Annual User Meeting.

Informatics and Experimental Strategies for De Novo Genome Sequencing with Short Reads presented by Elliott Margulies, National Human Genome Research Institute