Festival of Science

The UM School of Medicine launched a new initiative celebrating the scope of scientific discoveries that impact human health -- the vision of Dr. E. Albert Reece, Dean of the School of Medicine.

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Introduction to Bioinformatics What is Bioinformatics? How does it interface with high throughput sequencing?
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HMPDACC An overview of the Human Microbiome Project and the Data Analysis & Coordination Center.
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Bioinformatics Work Projects An overview of computational biology and bioinformatics projects at the Institute for Genome Sciences.
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Dr. Claire Fraser The Business of Research: Genomics and Biomedicine.
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E. coli Research E. coli outbreak in Germany
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Careers In Bioinformatics Working at the Institute for Genome Sciences in Baltimore, Maryland.
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PacBio User Group Meeting & Bioinformatics Workshop

IGS will be hosting a Pacific Biosciences User Group Meeting on Tuesday, June 18th. The meeting will be a forum for users to discuss how they are applying SMRT Sequencing to their applications and to exchange best practices.

We will also be hosting an afternoon bioinformatics workshop preceding the meeting on Monday, June 17th. The workshop will focus on experimental design and analysis for de novo assembly, as well as base modification detection using SMRT Analysis 2.0.

Bioinformatics Workshop
Monday, June 17, 2013
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm EDT
User Group Meeting
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
9:00 am – 5:00 pm EDT

RSVP or see the complete schedule of event speakers