Analyzing Genomics Data - Uri Laserson, PhD
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Please join us in June to hear one of Cloudera's brilliant data scientists, Uri Laserson, give a very interesting and exciting talk on analyzing genomics data and Apache Spark.
Note: This meeting is also being posted on our sister Meetup group, Biomedical Informatics Phoenix (https://www.meetup.com/Biomedical-Informatics-Phoenix/). Please only RSVP in one place.
Title: Petascale Genomics
Abstract:
The advent of next-generation DNA sequencing technologies is poised to revolutionize the way life sciences research is practiced. These new technologies are scaling significantly faster than Moore’s law, and promise to catapult life sciences research and the biotech industry into the realm of big data. However, bioinformatics and data management in the life sciences has been slow to adopt the latest big data technologies pioneered by the internet industry (e.g., Google and Facebook), in part because these tools are only beginning to become necessary today. In this talk, we will review several ways in which distributed computing tools (e.g., the Hadoop ecosystem) can be used to significantly advance the state-of-the-art in life sciences research, including: scaling genome-wide association studies to find connections between your genes and your traits, large-scale data integration of the large number of public databases, and assembling genome sequences from short snippets for use in cancer genomics. We will also cover the new ADAM project for rebooting genomics ETL on top of Spark.
Speaker Bio:
Uri Laserson is a data scientist at Cloudera. Previously, he obtained his PhD from MIT developing applications of high-throughput DNA sequencing to immunology. During that time, he co-founded Good Start Genetics, a next-generation diagnostics company focused on genetic carrier screening. In 2012, he was selected to Forbes’s list of 30 under 30. Uri also is co-author of new book titled Advanced Analytics with Spark published April 2015.
Agenda:
• 6:30-7:00pm: Sign-in & network (with Food & Beverages from Paradise Bakery sponsored by Cloudera)
• 7:00-7:15pm: Introduction & announcements
• 7:15-8:15pm: Presentation by Uri Laserson, PhD
• 8:15-8:30pm: Q&A & wrap-up
Sponsor:
Speaker, swag, and food/beverages for this event sponsored by Shawn Dolley, Brian Ferguson, and Mike Pileggi from Cloudera.
Parking Options:
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Free parking on Skysong Blvd between Skysong 1 (North) and Skysong 2 (South) buildings.
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There is also free uncovered parking to the North or SkySong 1 building. Please take a look at the following map.