- 2nd GET-A-PAN meeting in Paris, december 2026
A two day event will be held in Paris, the 16-17th of December 2026. We are lucky to have Andrea Guarracino, co-developper of the PGGB, ODGI and VG tools, as a Keynote Speaker. As in 2025, this first meeting will aim to present our ongoing methodological research and discuss the challenges that we encounter in appyling pangenomes techniques to our genomic datasets and spieces models. This year the event capacity has been extended from 30 to 40 invited participants.
- Several methodological, pangenome-based projects got successfully funded by the ANR and are involving many GET-A-PAN members
The need for more methodological pangenome research appears to be confirmed by the ANR funding results of this year 2026. To our knowledge, three more pangenome-related projects got funded (2 PRC, 1 PRCE). This follows the year 2025, with three other funded pangenome projects (2 PRC, 1 JCJC). Interestingly, many were submitted to the "CE45 - Interfaces : mathématiques, sciences du numérique" committee, indicating the importance of interdisciplinary research at the interface of Biology, Mathematics and Computational Research.
Among those, five involve GET-A-PAN members. Many are WP (co-)leaders. This observation confirms the importance of scientific networking for building a strong expertise, for identifying key challenges and finally for building coordinated and complementary projects. During these two years, at the least, we convinced our financers. A strong methodological research line on pangenomes is beginning to be secured in France for the next few years.
- 2025
- ANR PRC PanQuest :panquest-project.github.io
- ANR JCJC PANHCHO
- ANR PRC PanGAIMix : anr.fr/Project-ANR-25-CE45-7210
- 2026
- ANR PCR POPGraph (pangenomes and population genetics)
- ANR PCRE Wheasper (wheat pangenomes)
- ANR PRC GRANSmer (visualisation of pangenomes)
- 1st GET-A-PAN meeting in Paris, november 2025
To launch the network, a two day event will be held in Paris. This first meeting aims to present and discuss in a small selected committee the challenges that we encouter in appyling pangenomes techniques to problems and species that we study in the INRAE (high genomic diversity, high repeat contents, polyploidy, species complex ...).
Following this event, a summary report is available here :
- Original French version
- English version (rapidly reworked from DeepL translation)
- Participation to a mini-symposium dedicated to pangenome in JOBIM2025
Member from the network participated to the construction and the naimation of the mini-symposium "Methods for Interfacing with Graphs of Genomic Sequences: novel pangenome paradigms", in coordination with colleagues from the MIGGS network (CNRS, GDR seqBIMMM). Thanks to the JOBIM2025 committee to give us the chance to discuss pangenomes in this event.
We had the chance to listen to Jana Ebler, lead developper of the Pangenies genotyping method, which is based on pangenome graphs. Many PhD students also had the occasion to present their projects and posters via short talks. Finally, we lead a round table around the challenges that we face today in modelling genomes as graphs, and in their exploitation. This event was a good occasion to build national visibility for the scientific and methodological questions that are discussed within the GET-A-PAN network.