A report on Genome Informatics 2014, held in Cambridge, UK, 21-24 September, 2014. The first time I attended Genome Informatics was in 2010. The content of the talks and posters reflected a field that was still coming to terms with the era of short read sequencing. Many presentations were devoted to the analytical challenges of working with high-throughput sequencing data; assembly, alignment, variant calling and data storage were frequent topics both formally from the podium and informally in the hallways. The latest Genome Informatics meeting, held at Churchill College in Cambridge, UK, 21-24 September 2014, highlighted just how far the field has come in only a few years. The focus of the meeting is shifting towards the challenges of applying sequencing at all scales - from individual cells to populations - in all areas of biology. To demonstrate the diverse state of the field, I highlight representative talks from this year’s Genome Informatics conference below.
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