Workshop details

Date: Sunday September 4, 2016
Time: 9:00 – 17:00
Venue: World Forum, room: Everest 2

Workshop website

Organisers

• Prof. Niko Beerenwinkel, Department for Biosystems, Science and Engineering, ETH Zurich, and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
• Dr. Wolfgang Huber, Genome Biology, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
• Prof. Simon Tavaré, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute
• Dr. Daniel Stekhoven, NEXUS Personalized Health Technologies, ETH Zurich, and SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Summary

There is an increasing need for bioinformatics provided in clinics as a service. Examples include omicsinformed 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 reinvention 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.

Target audience

Participants backgrounds:

• Clinicians using (or aiming to use) high-throughput sequencing data for health-care
• Healthcare scientists using high-throughput sequencing data in clinical studies
• Bioinformaticians in academic or commercial method and software development