The NGS Data Management and Interpretation program includes:
Next-Generation Sequencing Based Approach toward Cellular Transcriptional Network
Yoshihide Hayashizaki, M.D., Ph.D., Director, RIKEN Omics Science Center
Identifying the Functional Consequences of Genetic Variation in Human Regulatory Genes
Rohan Williams, Ph.D., Principal Investigator and Deputy Cluster Leader, Singapore Centre on Environmental Life Sciences Engineering
NGS Transcript Variation in Dendritic Cell Subsets in Response to Viral Infection
Michael Poidinger, Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Bioinformatics, Singapore Immunology Network
Decoding Epigenetics Regulation of Non-Coding RNAs in Male Germ Cell Tumors
Tin-Lap Lee, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Reproduction, Development and Endocrinology Program, School of Biomedical Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
KEYNOTE SESSION:
System Analysis of Complex Bacterial Communities
Peter Little, Ph.D., Professor, Associate Director, Singapore Centre on Life Sciences Engineering;
KEYNOTE PANEL: Next-Gen Data Trends
Moderator:
Kevin Davies, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, Bio-IT World
Panelists:
Peter Little, Ph.D., Director, Life Sciences Institute; National University of Singapore
Yoshihide Hayashizaki, M.D., Ph.D., Director, RIKEN Omics Science Center
Seong-Jin Kim, Ph.D., President, CHA Research Institutes; Director, CHA Cancer Institute; Distinguished Professor, CHA University
Bioinformatics Software for Large-Scale Sequence Alignment and de novo Genome Assembly
Ruiqiang Li, Founder, Novogene Co. Ltd.; Principle Investigator, Biodynamic Optical Imaging Center and Peking-Tsinghua Joint Center for Life Sciences, Peking University
The Korean Genome Project Using NGS and Genome Engine Informatics Pipeline
Jong Bhak, Ph.D., Director, Personal Genomics Institute, South Korea
A Large-Scale Public Reference Set of Complete Human Genome Sequences for Biological Interpretation of Human Genomes
Richard Tearle, Ph.D., Senior Field Applications Scientist, Complete Genomics, Inc.
A Cloud Infrastructure for Comparative Human Genomics – from Onco- to Pan-Genomes
Stephen Rudd, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor & CSO, Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre
Bioinformatic Tools and Analyses for Medical Genomics
Pauline Ng, Ph.D., Group Leader, Mathematical & Computational Biology, Genome Institute of Singapore
Impact of DNA Structural Variation and Epigenetic Modulation of Enhancers on Gene Regulation
Touati Benoukraf, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Cancer Science Institute Singapore, National University of Singapore
The Future of Epidemiology is Genomic: Sequence, Report to a Central Database and Receive Results and Analysis
Laurent Gautier, Ph.D., Head, Core Facility, Senior Researcher, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark
The Bio-IT World Asia 2012 Conference will bring together, life sciences, pharmaceutical, informatics and IT professionals from all over Asia and the rest of the world to one unique location. The Event provides the perfect venue to share information and discuss enabling technologies that are driving biomedical research and the drug development process.
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Since its debut in 2002, the annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, held each Spring in Boston, has established itself as a premier event showcasing the myriad applications of IT and informatics to biomedical research and the drug discovery enterprise. Over 2,000 delegates representing 30 countries have gathered yearly to attend 125+ technology and scientific presentations and view an expansive exhibit hall of 100+ companies. Bio-IT World Conference continues its exceptional series of educational programming with the announcement of the Inaugural Bio-IT World Conference Asia.
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