==== AllBio Community Bilding Event in the Netherlands ====

Purpose of the meeting was to bring together the Dutch metagenomics research community.

The meeting was organized [[http://www.nbic.nl/about-nbic/news-press/bioinformatics-news/detail/article/metagenomics-seminar-attracted-over-50-participants/|together with NBIC]] (special thanks to Leon Mei). There were about 60 participants from over 20 research institutes and / or companies and several research groups within the research institutes. [[https://wiki.nbic.nl/index.php/Metagenomics_seminar_on_10-4-2012|Presentations]] were given by various research groups on different topics. The plenary discussion in the afternoon was lively and resulted some test cases that will be formulated and uploaded onto the AllBio web portal.

**Programme:**

|10:20-10:30|Rob Hooft, Sacha van Hijum|Welcome & Introduction|
|10:30-11:00|Victor de Jager (CMBI/NBIC)|The use of Grid and Cloud computing in functional metagenomics projects|
|11:00-11:30|Jos Boekhorst (NIZO/CMBI)|Analyzing microbial communities using 16S pyrosequencing|
|11:30-12:00|Jeroen Laros (LUMC)|Single molecule sequencing in bacterial metagenomics|
|12:00-13:00|lunch|
|13:00-13:30|Robert Kraaij (ErasmusMC)|Microbiome sequencing in large human populations|
|13:30-14:00|Giske Biesbroek (UMC Utrecht)|The microbiome of the upper respiratory tract: key to respiratory disease?|
|14:00-14:30|József Geml (National Herbarium of the Netherlands)|Biodiversity assessment of soil fungal communities using 454 sequencing|
|14:30-14:40|tea break|
|14:40-16:00|all|Plenary discussion|