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2013 Applying Next Generation Sequencing Brochure.pdf

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Cover<br />

Conference-at-a-Glance<br />

Short Courses/Plenary Keynote<br />

<strong>Sequencing</strong> Strategies for Success<br />

Dynamics of the Microbiome<br />

on Health and Disease<br />

Single-Cell <strong>Sequencing</strong><br />

<strong>Sequencing</strong> Data Analysis<br />

and Interpretation<br />

Sponsor & Exhibit Opportunities<br />

Hotel & Travel Information<br />

Registration Information<br />

Click Here to<br />

Register Online!<br />

Healthtech.com/<strong>Sequencing</strong><br />

Register by<br />

July 12<br />

and Save up<br />

to $250<br />

Cambridge Healthtech Institute<br />

250 First Avenue, Suite 300<br />

Needham, MA 02494<br />

www.healthtech.com<br />

Sixth Annual<br />

August 20-21, <strong>2013</strong><br />

NG X <strong>Sequencing</strong> Data Analysis<br />

and Interpretation Progress in the Pipeline<br />

<strong>Sequencing</strong> a genome is only the beginning. Several layers of analysis are necessary to convert raw sequence data into an understanding<br />

of functional biology. First, error sources in the original raw data from multiple platforms and diverse applications must be accounted for.<br />

Then, as computational methods for assembly, alignment, and variation detection continue to advance, a broad range of genetic analysis<br />

applications including comparative genomics, high-throughput polymorphism detection, analysis of coding and non-coding RNAs, and<br />

identifying mutant genes in disease pathways can be addressed. CHI’s <strong>Sequencing</strong> Data Analysis and Interpretation conference combines<br />

unique perspectives from a variety of researchers, engineers, biostatisticians, and software developers involved in NGS data analysis.<br />

Tuesday, August 20<br />

12:00 pm Main Conference Registration<br />

Sponsored by<br />

12:30 From Reads to Variants: Ten-Fold Reduction in Time<br />

and Cost with Improved Accuracy<br />

Rupert Yip, Ph.D., Director, Product Marketing, Bina Technologies<br />

Alignment and variant calling of raw NGS reads has been plagued by expensive HPC<br />

hardware and the bioinformatics personnel to support and maintain home-grown, opensource<br />

secondary analysis solutions. Such solutions can take up to weeks and $1000s per<br />

analysis. We present a genomic analysis platform that reduces, by ten-fold, the time and<br />

cost for secondary analysis while improving accuracy compared to standard pipelines. Our<br />

innovative model reduces costs by ten-fold while preventing hardware obsolescence.<br />

Tuesday, August 20<br />

»»<br />

Plenary Keynote Session<br />

2:00 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks<br />

Toby Bloom, Ph.D., Deputy Scientific Director, Informatics, New York Genome Center<br />

2:10 A Revolution in DNA <strong>Sequencing</strong> Technologies: Challenges<br />

and Opportunities<br />

Jeffery A. Schloss, Ph.D., Director, Division of Genome Sciences, National Human Genome<br />

Research Institute, National Institutes of Health<br />

The initial sequencing of the human genome spurred an appetite for much more human<br />

sequence information to better understand the contributions of human sequence variation to<br />

health and disease. However, despite dramatic reductions during the Human Genome Project,<br />

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the cost of sequencing was clearly too high to collect the very large numbers of human<br />

and numerous other organism genome sequences needed to achieve that understanding.<br />

In 2004, NHGRI launched parallel programs to reduce the cost of sequencing a mammalian<br />

genome initially by two (in five years), and eventually by four orders of magnitude (in ten<br />

years). This presentation will summarize the technologies that are in high-throughput use<br />

to produce stunning amounts of sequence and related data and novel biological insights,<br />

and will emphasize technologies currently emerging and on the horizon that may provide<br />

human genome sequence data with the nature, quality, cost and turnaround time needed for<br />

applications in research and medicine.<br />

PRESENT YOUR RESEARCH<br />

Gain further exposure by presenting your work in the poster<br />

sessions. To secure a poster board and inclusion in the conference<br />

materials, your abstract must be submitted, approved and your<br />

registration paid in full by July 12, <strong>2013</strong>.<br />

Reasons you should present your research poster at this conference:<br />

• Your poster will be exposed to our international delegation.<br />

• Receive $50 off your registration.<br />

• Your poster abstract will be published in our conference materials.<br />

• Your research will be seen by leaders from top pharmaceutical, biotech,<br />

academic and government institutes.<br />

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