Please find my interview with Pharmabiz here.
Teaching Bioinformatics Concepts & Practical Skills
New breakthroughs are being made every day in genomics. It’s a dynamic and fascinating industry, and with exceptional growth forecasted in the DNA sequencing market, a new generation of people are entering the field: future researchers, clinicians, counselors and doctors. This new generation will need to learn not only the science, but also understand how to process the massive amounts of data generated with DNA sequencing (and genomics in general).
Managing large volumes of data is already a mission critical topic in bioinformatics, where many core facilities are overworked. They do their best to keep up with the demand, but going forward there will be more data, more projects and more people to support. How will bioinformatics keep up?
Now, as universities are putting educational programs together to prepare the next generation of scientists and clinicians to understand the ins and outs of DNA analytics, they are running into obstacles. Bright kids who are fascinated by the science (human, animal, plant) are not necessarily computer programmers nor do they want to be. Yet, many of the tools used to teach basic analytic skills in genomics programs are public domain/open source programs that require enormous amounts of computer science knowledge to navigate.
Read the full story on Our 2 SNPs… here.
Golden Helix: Empowering Precision Medicine
Recently, I was interviewed by CIOReview on Golden Helix. I gave them an overview of our strategy as well as our entire solution stack. Please read the entire article here.
Cancer eBook – 2nd Edition
In 1914, the German cytologist Theodor Boveri coined the phrase “Cancer is a disease of the genome”. At this time, his ideas were as equally revolutionary as they were highly contested. Fast forward. More than a hundred years later, Next-Generation Sequencing effectively permits a highly sensitive analysis of cancer cells. It can help us to understand mutations associated with cancer development and progression. It also reveals other genomic rearrangements previously unknown to occur in the cancer genome. Translation of these findings for clinical purposes is an increasing part of standard care today.
I fully believe that next-generation sequencing will rapidly become a powerful tool for the personalized diagnosis and management of cancer. This eBook focuses on the parts of this process that are best understood: Cancer Gene Panels. This second edition will also show how a Tumor/Normal analysis can be conducted. This is typically more useful leveraging whole exome/genome data. We also added a case study to show how VarSeq is deployed in leading institutions such as the University of Iowa.
Read the full story on Our 2 SNPs… here.
Genetic Data Warehousing eBook
In our webcast last week, we announced the upcoming release of VSWarehouse, a scalable genetic data warehouse for VarSeq. Genetic data warehousing becomes more important as Next-Generation Sequencing is taking off in the clinic, creating significant data management issues for clinicians, scientists and IT professionals alike. How can we retain the massive amounts of data coming out of clinical pipelines in a way that enables labs to systematically build a knowledge base, capturing the insights clinicians gain on a day to day basis while analyzing the genetic information of their patients? What infrastructure is required to alert medical personnel of new research that could potentially alter medical decisions? And how can we embed the work that is being done in the labs into the general hospital workflows?
Data warehousing is a pivotal technology that can help in all of these areas. In this book, I will explain the concept of Data Warehousing and discuss the use cases for this technology vis-a-vis the upcoming requirements in clinical labs that are implementing Precision Medicine.
Read the full story on Our 2 SNPs… here.
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