[Apologies in advance if you receive multiple copies of this email] This is to announce and invite your participation in a workshop on Statistical Challenges and Biomedical Applications of Deep Sequencing Data, to be held from 5-10 June 2011 at Ascona in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together participants from statistics, computational sciences, bioinformatics and biology, and to encourage interaction in a relaxed and collegial atmosphere. Confirmed invited speakers include: Michael Brudno (University of Toronto), Chris Greenman (Sanger Institute), Willi Gruissem (ETH Zurich), Sunduz Keles (University of Wisconsin-Madison), John Marioni (EBI), Sach Mukherjee (University of Warwick), Ben Raphael (Brown University), Simon Tavare (Cancer Research UK), Amalio Telenti (University of Lausanne), with others still pending. Contributed presentations will also be welcome. More details and pre-registration instructions are available at http://www.cbg.ethz.ch/news/ascona2011 We strongly encourage pre-registration, in previous years places have filled up quickly. Niko Beerenwinkel Darlene Goldstein Peter B?hlmann -- Darlene Goldstein ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL) Institut de math?matiques B?timent MA, Station 8 Tel: +41 21 693 0528 CH-1015 Lausanne Fax: +41 21 693 4303 SWITZERLAND