First PyData Melbourne: Wrangling and Sharing High-throughput Genomics Data

We are super excited to welcome you to PyData Melbourne’s inaugural meetup!

We have a great talk from Dr Alan Rubin lined up for you:

Wrangling and Sharing High-throughput Genomics Data

Genome sequencing is becoming ever more widespread in clinical practice, but major challenges remain. When a genetic variant is revealed by sequencing, experts need to understand what it does and if it is related to disease. To do this, they need evidence and one powerful source of evidence comes from experiments.

This talk will describe how we built a community database for these experimental data, both submitted directly by researchers and curated from published papers. We’ll go through some of the challenges of standardising a very heterogeneous set of rich data, building informative interfaces on top of it, and presenting an API for users who want to build clinical variant interpretation platforms, AI models for protein science, and everything in between.

Agenda

• 5:30 Doors open, networking over pizza and drinks
• 6:00 Welcome from the organisers and community announcments
• 6:10 Dr Alan Rubin presenting Wrangling and Sharing High-throughput Genomics Data
• 7:00 Wrap-up from the organisers and more networking
• 7:30 Close -- dinner, drinks and good conversations at a pub nearby

Many thanks to Mantel Group for hosting our first event :)

Our goal for the PyData Melbourne meetup is to make a space for people from the local community to speak and share around topics of data science, statistical computing, data analytics & visualisation, especially involving open source software -- not just limited to Python!