Year: 2011
Type: editorial
Abstract: The University of Tennessee (UT), the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (KBRIN), have collaborated over the past decade to share research and educational expertise in bioinformatics.One result of this collaboration is the joint sponsorship of an annual regional summit to bring together researchers, educators and students who are interested in bioinformatics from a variety of research and educational institutions.This summit provides unique opportunities for collaboration and forging links between members of the various institutions.This year, the Tenth Annual UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit was held at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee from April 1-3, 2011.A total of 225 participants pre-registered for the summit, with 146 from various Tennessee institutions and 60 from various Kentucky institutions.A number of additional participants came from universities and research institutions from other states and countries, e. g.University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, University of British Columbia, University of Cincinnati, Iowa State University, etc. Seventy-four registrants were faculty, with an additional 73 students, 50 staff, and 28 postdoctoral participants.The conference program consisted of three days of presentations.The first day included a pre-summit of talks by researchers supported by the Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (KBRIN), and three workshops covering the topics Next-Generation Sequencing, the workflow platform Galaxy, and Gene-MANIA.The next two days were dedicated to scientific presentations divided into three plenary sessions on Pediatric Genetics, Pharmacogenomics and Systems Biology.Each session also included short talks selected from the submitted poster abstracts. Pre-summit KBRIN sessionDr. Eric Rouchka started the pre-summit KBRIN session with an update on the supplement to the primary KBRIN grant awarded in 2009.Thanks to the funding provided by the supplement, five postdoctoral research associates have been hired, along with two masters level bioinformatics staff positions.In addition, a weekly seminar series has been implemented that includes externally invited speakers with strong research programs in bioinformatics.Following was a series of short talks from various University of Louisville researchers: "Developing an Analysis Pipeline for FT-ICR-MS Isotopologue Data from Stable Isotope Resolved Metabolomics (SIRM) Experiments" (Hunter Moseley), "Time Series Classifier Model for miR-mRNA Relationships" (Jovan D. Rebolledo-Mendez), "Assessing Variations in NGS Data" (Alex Kemper), "A Systems Based Approach to Find Protein Interactions Across Tissues" (Fahim Mohammad), "cate-goryCompare: High-Throughput Data Meta-Analysis Using Gene Annotations" (Robert M. Flight), "Collaborations between Biology/Bioinformatics" (Benjamin J. Harrison). Friday workshopsJon Armstrong of Cofactor Genomics (St. Louis, MO; http://www.cofactorgenomics.com)started the official summit program with an excellent overview of the past, present and future of DNA sequencing, beginning with the Maxam-Gilbert [1] and Sanger [2] methods and transitioning to the approaches used by next-generation sequencers.Among the technologies covered were pyrosequencing [3], reversible dye terminator technology [4], sequencing by ligation [5], and single molecule real time
Source: BMC Bioinformatics
Institutions: University of Louisville, University of Memphis
Language: English
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,990
OpenAlex ID: W4230130892