Clinical Bioinformatics as a Service 2016
Together with the external pageEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) from Heidelberg and external pageCancer Research UK's Cambridge Institute, NEXUS organized a workshop at the external pageEuropean Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2016) in The Hague, Netherlands. On this page you can find all relevant details about this workshop.
Date and time
September 4, 2016, 09:00 - 17:30 (CEST)
Location
Room Everest, external pageWorld Forum in external pageThe Hague, Netherlands
Workshop Booklet
Clinical Bioinformatics as a Service DownloadWorkshop Booklet
Description of Workshop
There is an increasing need for bioinformatics provided in clinics as a service. Examples include omics-informed precision oncology, rare genetic diseases, infectious diseases, gene therapy, etc. The field is young and rapidly evolving, such that there is much uncertainty about best practices, tools are unstable, and much re-invention or duplication is happening. This workshop aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners in this area to exchange latest approaches, experiences, tool benchmark results, protocols and best practice guidelines for reporting molecular-based evidence to clinicians and patients.
The goals of this workshop is to foster a community of bioinformaticians working in providing clinical services, including researchers and companies producing tools for and service to them; understanding the aims and use cases of NGS-based data analysis in the clinical setting as well as its strengths and weaknesses; and exchanging best practices about offering clinical bioinformatics as a service and reporting molecular evidence to clinicians and patients.
Invited Speakers
- external pageTero Aittokallio, Computational Systems Medicine, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM)
- external pageDieter Beule, Head of Bioinformatics Core Unit, Berlin Institute of Health
- external pageLydia Drumright, Clinical Informatics, University of Cambridge
- external pageCamille Stephan-otto Attolini, Bioinformatics-Biostatistics Unit, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) Barcelona
Agenda
Target Audience
- Clinicians using (or aiming to use) high-throughput sequencing data for health-care provision
- Healthcare scientists using high-throughput sequencing data in clinical studies
- Genetic lab specialist and/or clinical molecular geneticists
- Bioinformaticians in core facilities
- Bioinformaticians in academic or commercial method and software development
Workshop Organizers
- Niko Beerenwinkel, Department for Biosystems, Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
- external pageWolfgang Huber, Genome Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
- external pageSimon Tavaré, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
- Daniel Stekhoven, NEXUS Personalized Health Technologies, ETH Zurich, and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
