| ASHG/IGES/ISCB Joint Symposium: Working with Big Data in the Cloud--Research and Privacy | |
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United States - CA - San Diego |
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| Hosted by: | ASHG/IGES/ISCB |
| Venue: | San Diego Convention Center |
| Dates: | Oct 16, 2018 through Oct 16, 2018 |
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Description |
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| In collaboration with ASHG and IGES, ISCB is pleased to present a joint symposium at the ASHG annual meeting focused on big data in the cloud. Numerous large scale human genome research projects (e.g. UK Biobank, International Human Epigenome Consortium, 100,000 Genomes, AstraZeneca 2M Genomes, NIH All of Us) have been launched, producing considerable amounts of personal genome data for analysis. These make use of omics technologies including whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing, transcriptome sequencing, and epigenome sequencing. The scale of these datasets requires use of cloud-computing resources to either store or analyze (or both) the vast amounts of data. Importantly, the shift to cloud-computing moves the personal data and analysis to an environment outside of personal/research lab control, thus necessitating an understanding of the legal and ethical obligations in maintaining data privacy, and experience in architecting and operating in cloud-compute environments to ensure human genome data is secure yet accessible by those with permissions. This session presents an opportunity for the three communities (ASHG/IGES/ISCB) to come together to learn and discuss the legal and ethical frameworks governing personal genome data, particularly in the cloud-computing environment, and to share best practices for operating securely in this environment while still facilitating research. Practical applications to current big genome data projects will be presented and the session will close with a dynamic panel discussion with all speakers. |
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| Additional Information | |
| Event URL: | https://www.iscb.org/ashg-joint-symposium |
| ISCB Member Discount: | 35 percent |
| Contact Person: | Bel Hanson ([javascript protected email address]) |
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