"Current Topics in Bioinformatics: Big Data in Genomics and Medicine"

Date: 05/07/2018, 14:00-18:30h

Location:
Magnus-Haus Berlin
Am Kupfergraben 7
10117 Berlin

Speaker: Dr. Mathias Wilhelm (Technical University Munich) *** Prof. Dr. Alice McHardy (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig) *** Dr. Roland Schwarz (Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin) *** Dr. Djork-Arné Clevert (Bayer AG, Berlin) *** Dr. Jochen Walker (InGef – Institut für angewandte Gesundheitsforschung Berlin GmbH, Berlin) *** Lee Stopak (Ada Health GmbH, Berlin)

Further information: http://www.healthcapital.de/termine/termin/bioinformatics-me...

Description: Recent advances in genomics technologies like next-generation sequencing or mass spectrometry provide huge amounts of data that has never been imaginable before. Applying these techniques in biomedical studies and medical practice allows building individualized strategies for diagnostic or therapeutic decision-making by utilizing patients’ genomic information. “Precision medicine” enables physicians to predict very accurately, which therapeutic and preventive approaches to a specific illness can work effectively for individual patients based on their genetic make-up, lifestyle, and environmental factors. Such new approaches in medicine and healthcare will deeply shape our future.

Big data analytics forms the basis for this development, as it uncovers hidden patterns, unknown correlations, and provides insight through examining heterogeneous large-scale data sets. However, the volume and complexity of the data pose significant challenges for its use in clinical practice since conventional data processing algorithms cannot deal with them anymore. The workshop “Current Topics in Bioinformatics – Big Data in Genomics and Medicine” will present the challenges in applying genomics data to improve clinical research and healthcare and highlight the problems and opportunities arising from it.

“Current Topics in Bioinformatics” continues the former „Treffpunkt Bioinformatik“, an annual workshop bringing together the local actors in Bioinformatics from academia and industry in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. The series was founded in 2003 by the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (MPIMG) together with the Healthcare Industries Cluster from HealthCapital Berlin-Brandenburg (formerly as BioTOP Berlin-Brandenburg). In 2017, a Steering Committee including Bayer, SAP, and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) has been established to further advance the series and establish it as the annual meeting of Bioinformaticians in the Berlin-Brandenburg region.

Contact:
HealthCapital Berlin-Brandenburg
Phone: +49 (0)30 46302 - 463
info@healthcapital.de
http://www.healthcapital.de/

Keywords: genetic research/technology; genome analysis; health system; medical ethics