====== Best poster award at the GCB 2012 ======

PhD candidates [[http://www.rahmannlab.de/people/corinna-ernst|Corinna Ernst]] (Genome Informatics, Uni Essen) and [[:staff:martin|Marcel Martin]] (Chair 11, TU Dortmund), both supervised by [[http://www.rahmannlab.de/|Sven Rahmann]] (Uni Essen, previously Chair 11) share second place for their posters presented at the [[http://www.gcb2012-jena.de/|German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB)]] in Jena.

Corinna's poster "An Efficient Data Structure for Pangenomes" shows how to represent the differences and commonalities among the DNA sequences of all genomes of a species in a memory-efficient and meaningful way.

Marcel's poster "Alignment of flowgrams to strings" describes his work on automatic error-correction for DNA sequencing technologies that use so-called "flowgrams" as an intermediate representation of DNA.

Although only a single second place was going to be awarded, the jury decided otherwise when both posters received an equal number of votes in two consecutive rounds of voting.

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From left to right: Sven Rahmann, Corinna Ernst, Marcel Martin and Dominik Kopcynski (also Chair 11)