New complimentary webinar from Science:
The Importance of Bioinformatics in NGS: Breaking the Bottleneck in Data Interpretation
You are invited to hear our panel of experts on May 14, 2014, in this live, online educational seminar. For more information and complimentary registration visit:webinar.sciencemag.org
Date:
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Time:
12 Noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific, 5 p.m. UK, 6 p.m. Central Europe
Duration
: 1 hour
About This Webinar
Unprecedented advances have been made in the speed and throughput of next generation sequencing (NGS) platforms over the last decade. This progress has imposed increasingly high demands on the bioinformatics tools necessary for analysis of the data generated, which has grown exponentially. Although hundreds of thousands of samples have been sequenced, our ability to find, associate, and implicate genetic variants and candidate disease genes far outstrips our ability to understand them. Many researchers are comfortable with NGS technology, but encounter difficulties with the bioinformatics portion of their workflow, rendering NGS a less attractive option as their primary sequencing platform. However, once clear bioinformatics procedures are established and optimized this bottleneck can be removed, resulting in smooth and routine data interpretation processes and expedited research discoveries. During this webinar, our expert speakers will discuss their bioinformatics strategies and applications in range of fields of clinical research.
During the webinar, viewers willl:
• Be introduced to the bioinformatics workflow and the importance of accurate NGS data analysis and interpretation
• Learn how bioinformatics concepts are applied to detect and characterize disease-related mutations
• Hear about the use of bioinformatics workflows in a translational setting for tumor mutation detection
• Have their questions answered live by our expert panel!
Participants:
Vincent Funari, Ph.D.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA
Sandra J. Canosa, M.S.
Yale University
New Haven, CT
Register at:
webinar.sciencemag.org
Questions? E-mail: webinar@aaas.org.