Dear colleagues, It's our pleasure to invite you to Scalable Genomics and Pangenomics workshop hosted by Wellcome Connecting Science. Where: Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK When: 11. - 16. of October 2026 Confirmed teachers: Kathrine Janike, Kamil S. Jaron, Vikram Shivkumar, Richard Durbin & Antoine Limasset with a guest lecture by Gene Myers Large-scale sequencing projects now investigate variation across populations and species, often involving hundreds or thousands of genomes. This expansion creates new opportunities to study structural variation, gene content diversity, and evolutionary processes, while demanding analytical approaches that remain efficient and robust at scale. In this course you will learn: k-mers as a foundation for genome analysis and comparison Genome profiling and reference-free quality assessment Limitations of linear references and introduction to pangenome concepts Representing genomic diversity using graph-based and comparative frameworks Strategies for comparing multiple genomes efficiently at scale Considerations for computational performance, indexing, and workflow design Applications and more details: https://coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/scalable-genomics-and-pangenomics-20261011/ Application deadline: 22 June 2026 On behalf of the organising committee, Kamil S. Jaron The Wellcome Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SA. Kamil Jaron (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)