More than 30 participants from 10 different countries was a part of the NEXT Bioformatics workshop in the end of January 2019. Photo: private.
04-02-2019
By the end of January, the network group NEXT Bioinformatics held a Genome Analyses Toolkit workshop with support from DCCC. The workshop focused on the newest bioinformatics techniques for treatment of genetic information that are crucial for research and implementation of personalised medicine in cancer treatment.
30 participants from 20 different institutions and 10 different countries participated in a four day-long workshop arranged in collaboration between the Department of Haematology at Aalborg University Hospital, Centre for RNA Medicine and Department of Clinical Medicine at Aalborg University, Computerome and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
The workshop worked with the newest version of the software package; Genome Analysis Toolkit. Instructors from Broad Institute, the creators of the software, were teaching in the latest developments in computational techniques for high throughput sequencing data. These techniques are crucial for research and implementation of personalized medicine in e.g. cancer treatment.
"The software package is widely used in cancer research, as it has many tools for genomic data analysis. Among others, The National Genome Center is currently testing the methods" says Martin Bøgsted, Professor at Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and co-initiator of the network group NEXT Bioinformatics.
"The workshop was inspiring and created new knowledge for the start-up of the analysis phase in new research projects as well as optimizing and renewal of working habits for users of the tool including both researchers and clinicians" ends Martin Bøgsted.
Read more about the workshop and the programme
If you are interested in more information about NEXT Bioformatics, read more here or contact Martin Bøgsted at martin.boegsted@rn.dk or Rasmus Froberg Brøndum at rfb@rn.dk