Bio IT is around the corner and we will be present. Our Director of Bioinformatics, Justin H. Johnson, will be the Chairperson and a speaker for Thursday, April 26 Track 4 talk/sessions on Bioinformatics & The Cloud. The session is set to begin at 8:40am and Justin will be giving the opening remarks and introducing  these speakers: Ray Fyhr, Project Lead, MRL-IT, Merck and Chuanbin Du, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University North Carolina at Charlotte. Our talk begins at 9:45am and Justin will be speaking about The Path Toward a Medical Grade Genome. Please join Justin H. Johnson, Director of Bioinformatics, EdgeBio - Project Lead of Validation Protocol, Archon Genomics X Prize Presented by Express Scripts during this time for some insight on the Archon Genomics X Prize.

Abstract

The Archon Genomics X PRIZE presented by Express Scripts created a “Validation Protocol” that is helping to define for the first time what it means to have a complete and accurate “medical grade" whole human genome sequence. The primary role of the "Validation Protocol" is to enable the X PRIZE Foundation to declare a winner of the $10 Million Competition in 2013 without controversy. This presentation will describe the Validation protocol in detail, as well as present preliminary data on the methodologies employed to reconstruct the fosmid data, compare sequencing technologies to minimize bias, and develop software for whole genome comparison to fosmid data for contestant grading.