Open Precision Medicine Conference

Open source tech and data enable creative solutions to some of medicine’s most pressing questions. At Open Precision Medicine, we bring together leading experts in precision medicine to discuss advances in diagnostics, genomics, and drug development enabled by open source tools.

 
 

Featured Talks

 

Keynote Speakers

  • Wolfgang Huber

    Wolfgang Huber - Multi-omics data integration in functional precision medicine and cancer stratification

    Wolfgang is a founding member of Bioconductor, which started in 2001 and continues to be one of the largest bioinformatics projects. He is a Group Leader and Senior Scientist at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

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  • Clare Bernard

    Clare Bernard - Terra: a software platform for new paradigms in human subjects research

    Clare is the senior director of the Data Sciences Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she coordinates many health-focused informatics projects, including GATK and Terra.

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Schedule

Main Track

Wolfgang Huber: Multi-Omics Data Integration in Functional Precision Medicine and Cancer Stratification

Clare Bernard: Terra - A Software Platform for New Paradigms in Human Subjects Research

Investor Panel: Joseph Lehar, Gwen Cheni, Peter Crane, Matt Krisiloff & Nathan McNally

Paul Avillach: Creating FAIR Computational Tools for the Nationally-Scaled Conduct of Biomedical Research

Grant Belgard: Bioinformatics for Target Identification & Validation

Peter Rice: EMBOSS - Evolution of an Open Source Project

Sean Davis: Open Source Software, Communities, and Precision Medicine: talking about the squishy parts

Stephen Altschul: The Ignition of BLAST

Joseph Lehar: Using Federated Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Precision Medicine

Dana Vuzman: CGAP - Open Clinical Genome Analysis Platform to support Precision Medicine

 

Tools Track

Simon Andrews: Expect the Unexpected – The Importance of QC and Data Exploration

Hamed Haseli: Reproducibility in the Statistical Analysis of High-Throughput Phenotypic Data With a Focus on the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC)

Martina Kutmon: WikiPathways – An Open, Collaborative Knowledgebase for Molecular Pathway Models to Study Disease Mechanisms

Antti Hakkinen: High-throughput Computational Methods for Phenotypic Profiling Empower Personalized Medicine

Ola Spjuth: Open Source Lab Automation - Towards Applications in Precision Medicine

Thomas Otto: Precision Medicine Off the Beaten Track

John Marshall: Reflections on Twelve Years of Samtools

Oliver Gibson: Single-Cell Data Analysis Made Simple - Cellenics®

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