131st MPEG Virtual Meeting

17 Jul 2020 | Event, MPEG

Traditionally regrouping all the world’s MPEG experts in a single location, the 131st MPEG meeting has been held online due to the COVID-19 situation, from July 6th to 10th.

A summary of the main achievements can be found here.

The MPEG-G group has issued a Call for Proposals on extension and improvements to ISO/IEC 23092 standard series. The extensions shall address two specific objectives: (i) to increase the speed performance of massively parallel codec implementations and (ii) to enable advanced queries and search capabilities on the compressed data.

130th MPEG Virtual Meeting

12 Jun 2020 | Event, MPEG

Traditionally regrouping all the world’s MPEG experts in a single location, the 130th MPEG meeting has been held online due to the COVID-19 situation, from April 20th to 24th. Nonetheless, lots of important topics have been discussed and many progress and improvements have been made in the specific ISO 23092 MPEG-G subject.

The Workshop provides at first, as usual, an overview of MPEG-G the new ISO standard on the compression and optimized access to genomic information, its impact on the relevant industry, on the various related standardization initiatives, use cases, sequencing technology evolution and perspectives for standardization in other –omics fields.

In line with the traditional MPEG practice of continuous improvement of the quality and performance of its standards, at its 130th meeting, MPEG promoted to FDIS a new edition of Part 1 and 2 and to FDIS Part 4 “Reference Software” and Part 5 “Conformance”. Such components of the MPEG-G standard series provide important supports to those willing to implement the standard or interested to verify the correctness and interoperability of their own implementations.

Compared to the first edition, the second editions of ISO/IEC 23092-1 and ISO/IEC 23092-2, haves been improved by taking into accounts comments received from users.

The ISO/IEC 23092-4 (MPEG-G Reference Software) standard provides a normative implementation of the standard. In conjunction with the ISO/IEC 23092-5 (MPEG-G Conformance) standard, it provides a comprehensive specification and validation support for the development of conforming decoder implementations. Interoperability of applications relying on normative decoding processes is facilitated by a reference normative decoding process and a rich set of tests and corresponding golden references.

4th MPEG Workshop on Genomic Information Representation

18 Oct 2018 | Event, MPEG

A workshop on applications of genomic information processing was hosted by Tencent in Shenzhen on 13th October 2018, the day after the closing of the 124th MPEG meeting in Macau.

The Workshop has provided an overview of MPEG-G the new ISO standard on the compression and optimized access to genomic information, its impact on the relevant industry, on the various related standardization initiatives, use cases, sequencing technology evolution and perspectives for standardization in other –omics fields.

Specifically the workshop addressed:

  • An overview of the ISO genomic compression standard and its new features and performance
  • The challenges for the generation and management of very large volumes of genome sequencing data
  • The status and future perspectives of sequencing technology and genomic data generation
  • The vision of genomic information storage and processing on the cloud
  • The vision of further standardization objectives in the –omics fields

Final Program

Start End What Who
12:30 13:00 Registration  
13:00 13:10 Welcome & workshop goals Leonardo Chiariglione (MPEG Convener)
13:10 13:40 “An overview of the MPEG-G standard for the compression and processing of genomic sequencing data” Marco Mattavelli (EPFL, Switzerland)
13:40 14:10 “An overview of standardization progress in genomics data” Yong Zhang (ISO/TC 276/ WG2 & WG 5 Convenor)
14:10 14:40 “GSA: Genome Sequence Archive, in China” Yanqing Wang (BIG Data Center, BIG, CAS)
14:40 14:45 Short presentation of demos Alvaro G. Hernandez (UIUC DNA Services, USA)
14:50 15:20 Demo session and Coffee Break
15:20 15:50 “State-of-the-art and future of NGS, a standard perspective”  Ming NI (BGI-Shenzhen and MGI)
15:50 16:20 “Constructing an open ecosystem for bioinformatics and genomic big data” Chen Shifu (Haplox)
16:20 16:50 “Practice and Challenges of 20,000 human WGS data analysis on BGI Online” Kang FANG (BGI-Online, BGI)
16:50 17:20 Panel discussion,  Q&A and concluding remarks All speakers

Demonstrations of genome sequencing data processing prototypes and products

Co-located with the workshop GenomSys showed demos, prototypes and products related to genome sequencing data processing analytics, compression and storage.

3rd MPEG Workshop on Genomic Information Representation

18 Apr 2018 | Event, MPEG

Genomic Information Representation Metadata

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.

2nd MPEG Workshop on Genomic Information Representation

19 Jul 2017 | Event, MPEG

Workshop on Processing of Genomic Information: From Standards to Deployment

 13:30 – 19:00, 19th July 2017 – Torino (Italy)

Sala dei Mappamondi, Academy of Sciences, Via Accademia delle Scienze, 6, Torino

Genomic Information Representation
New Systems and Solutions For Efficient Genomic Information Processing

Organized by
Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine (IIGM)

and

International Organisation for Standardisation
Technical Committee 276 “Biotechnology”
and MPEG (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11)

A workshop on applications of genomic information processing has been held on 19th July 2017 in Torino, Italy, co-located with the 119th MPEG meeting.

The workshop intended to explore the opportunities for improved health services offered by the availability in late 2018 of an ISO standard on compression of genomic information and its impact on the relevant industry.

Specifically the workshop addressed:

  • the potential of genomic information usage in public health
  • the IT challenges for the widespread usage of genomic data in public health
  • public policy on big data economy and genomics
  • a status report on the development of the ISO genomic compression standard
  • how the investors community can help progress the standard to deployment
  • how the appropriate usage of genomic data drives efficient drug development
  • how the genomic data processing industries can benefit from the standard
  • how health services can be affected by the massive application of genome processing

Organizing Committee:

Ruggero De Maria (IIGM), Diego Gibellino (TIM), Claudio Alberti (EPFL), Tom Paridaens (imec and UGent)

Program and list of speakers:

Start End Speaker What
13:30 14:00 Registration  
14:00 14:15 Ruggero De Maria (IIGM) Welcome & workshop goals
14:15 14:40 Chiara Marinacci. Epidemiology Unit, Regione Piemonte, Italy Genomics, a major component of future health policy
14:40 15:05 Mikel Hernaez, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Challenges in precision medicine: from sequencing to big data processing
15:05 15:30 Kristina Kjerstad, DG Connect, European Commission EC policy on data economy and its relation with genomics
15:30 15:55 Coffee break  
15:55 16:20 Marco Mattavelli, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland MPEG-G the emerging ISO standard for genomic data
16:20 16:45 Alberto de Min, Preon Capital, Switzerland Business opportunities in standardization
16:45 17:10 Wolfgang Hackl, Novartis, Switzerland Genomic Profiling of Cancer to inform Drug Development
17:10 17:25 Coffee Break  
17:25 17:50 Leonor Frias, MADEOFGENES, Spain Challenges in the personal genomics era
17:50 18:15 Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Italy Genomics in the clinical practice – Today and tomorrow
18:15 19:00 Francesco Profumo, President, Compagnia di San Paolo, Italy Discussion & recommendations

With the support of

Transport and Storage of Genomic Information

With the patronage of

Efficient Genomic Data Storage
MPEG Genome Compression
NGS Data Compression

1st MPEG Workshop on Genomic Information Representation

23 Feb 2016 | Event, MPEG

Genomic Information Representation

A seminar on Genome Compression Standardization has been held on 23rd February 2016 during the 114th MPEG meeting in San Diego.

The purpose of this seminar was twofold: to raise the awareness on the need of new approaches to genome compression for the efficient handling of the increasing flood of sequencing data and to collect requirements from stakeholders from the different fields interested in the acquisition and processing of genome data.

MPEG

The main topics covered by the seminar presentations were:

  • New approaches, tools and algorithms to compress genome sequence data
  • Genome compression and genomic medicine applications
  • Objectives and issues of quality scores compression and impact on downstream analysis applications

Venue:
San Diego Marriott La Jolla
4240 La Jolla Village Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037 United States
(see the 114th MPEG meeting website for further details)

Organizing Committee:
Marco Mattavelli (EPFL), Joern Ostermann (TNT), Mikel Hernaez (Stanford University)

Program

Speaker Title
Marco Mattavelli – chairman of MPEG Ad-hoc group on Genome Compression and Storage MPEG experience in Genomic Information Representation
Come Raczy – Illumina Compression
Bayo Lau – Bina Technology/Roche Sequencing Practical Considerations of Genomic Data
Cenk Sahinalp – Simon Fraser University Vancouver High Throughput Sequencing Compression – State of the Art
Yong Zhang – Co-convenor of TC 276 “Biotechnology” WG 5 “Data Processing” The Time of Peta-byte Is Coming. Challenges and Opportunities in Big BioData
Joern Ostermann – MPEG Requirements Chair MPEG workplan for Genome Compression Standardization

The presentations showed during the workshop can be found in the Documents page