Cambridge Healthtech Institute Announces NGS Assembly and Alignment Short Course

NEEDHAM, Mass. - Dec. 10, 2013 - PRLog -- Cambridge Healthtech Institute announces its NGS Assembly and Alignment short course, which will take place at the Moscone North Convention Center in San Francisco, CA on February 9, 2014 from 5:30-8:30 PM.  The utility of Next Generation Sequencing data has proven itself for research and clinical use. Fundamental to any analysis based on DNA-Seq variant call data is an appreciation of the complexity and shortcomings of the upstream analysis: from the machine generated base calls, through alignment, recalibration, local InDel re-alignment and variant calling.

This course will provide an overview of the bioinformatics landscape of secondary analysis without assuming a bioinformatics background from the attendee. In reviewing the strengths and weakness of tools and pipelines, the instructor will cover common sources of false-positives, and through interactive examples, learn to spot them in a genome browser. Finally, the course will cover what to expect and not expect as deliverables from a sequence-as-a-service provider or core lab.

Course Instructor: Gabe Rudy, Vice President, Product Development, Golden Helix

For more information on Molecular Med TRI-CON's short courses and to register, visit http://bit.ly/18uJs7Y

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About Molecular Med Tri-Conference (http://www.triconference.com)

The 21st International Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference is the industry's Preeminent Event on Molecular Medicine, focusing on Drug Discovery, Genomics, Diagnostics and Information Technology. Spanning six days this year, the Tri-Conference includes an expanded program that includes 6 symposia, over 20 short courses, and 15 main programs. For the first time in over 10 years we're bringing back a dedicated conference on sequencing. As many will recall this event's infancy was heavily devoted to the Human Genome Project and we are excited to reintroduce sequencing to this event.