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New Sequencing Technologies And Their Applications In Medicine Workshop20 - 21 Novembre 2008 Dear Associates, The EBI will host a New Sequencing Technologies And Their Applications In Medecine Workshop on the 20th to 21st November 2008. The venue will be the EBI IT Training room. We would like to invite you to attend this workshop focussing on recent developments in genomics. Its aims are to identify how the commercial and academic opportunities afforded by the sequencing revolution can be realised. Motivation Whereas current medical diagnostics is mainly based on patient symptoms, anatomical imaging, blood analysis and tissue pathology, there is a widespread notion that the rapid developments in high-throughput sequencing will have important consequences in medicine. Some of these are already evident, such as the rapid characterization of new viruses or pathogens. But there are also applications imminent in cancer diagnostics; and an even broader field of ‘personal genomics’ emerges as the costs for a ‘whole-genome’ human sequence drops and the number of individuals for which the full sequence is known will reach a 1000 over the next few years. Within Europe, the focus of this work will be at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute. We have therefore invited speakers from these two institutes to illuminate three perspectives: the technologies, applications in cancer and pathogen characterization, and the perspective of personal genomics. The programme essentially has three sessions one focussed on technologies, one on applications in personal genomics and one on other types of applications. Organisers and contacts: The Coordinator of the EBI Industry Programme is Dr. Dominic Clark (EMBL-EBI). Please send any questions regarding the strategic intent and programme to Dominic Clark (clark@ebi.ac.uk). We are grateful to Dr. Matthieu Visser (Philips Research) for helpful input on the programme and agenda, to Paul Flicek (EMBL-EBI) and to collaborators at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Please send any questions regarding logistics to Liz Ford (ford@ebi.ac.uk). Registration will close on the 7th November 2008, 12:00 British Time. Agenda:
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