A workshop on applications of genomic information processing has been held on 18th April 2018 co-located with the 122nd MPEG meeting in San Diego.
The Workshop explored the opportunities for improved genome sequencing data processing services enabled by the availability in late 2018 of an ISO standard called MPEG-G on the compression of genomic information and its impact on the relevant industry.
Specifically the workshop addressed:
- The perspectives and potential of genomic information usage in medicine and public health
- The vision of interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of genome sequencing data
- The challenges for the generation and management of very large volumes of genome sequencing data
- The status, progresses of sequencing technology and associate data generation features
- The reasons for supporting seamless availability and exchange of genome sequencing data for improving scientific progress yielded by wider data volume analysis
- A status report on the development of the ISO genomic compression standard and an overview of its new features and performance
Venue:
San Diego Marriott La Jolla, 4240 La Jolla Village Drive
San Diego, CA 92037, United States
(see also the 122nd MPEG meeting for more details)
Organizing Committee:
Joern Ostermann (TNT-LUH), Claudio Alberti (GenomSys), Rongshan Yu (Aginome Scientific), Tom Paridaens (imec and UGent)
Program
| Start | End | What | Who |
| 12:30 | 13:00 | Registration | |
| 13:00 | 13:15 | Welcome & workshop goals | |
| 13:15 | 13:40 | “Genome and medical information portability, retrieval and analysis” | Amalio Telenti (Scripps Research Institute, USA) |
| 13:40 | 14:05 | “From womb to tomb sequencing: on the advantages on bringing multidisciplinary R&D to develop standards and analytics” | Ioannis Xenarios, (SIB Switzerland) |
| 14:05 | 14:30 | “Future of Genomics and Big Data” | Dawn Barry (Luna DNA, USA) |
| 14:30 | 14:55 | “Generation and Management of Large Sequence Files: Perspectives from the DNA Sequencing Core” | Alvaro G. Hernandez (UIUC DNA Services, USA) |
| 14:55 | 15:10 | Presentation of demonstrations | GenomSys, Aginome Scientific |
| 15:10 | 15:40 | Demo session and Coffee Break | |
| 15:40 | 16:05 | “The role of compression in the genomics data life cycle” | Come Raczy (Illumina Inc., USA) |
| 16:05 | 16:30 | Genomics at Rady’s Children Hospital San Diego | Ray Veeraraghavan (Rady’s Children Hospital San Diego, USA) |
| 16:30 | 16:55 | “An overview of the MPEG-G standard for the compression and processing of genomic sequencing data” | Marco Mattavelli (EPFL, Switzerland) |
Demonstrations of genome sequencing data processing prototypes and products
Co-located with the workshop GenomSys and Aginome Scientific showed demos, prototypes and products related to genome sequencing data processing analytics, compression and storage.