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SUMMARY:The impact of the genomic revolution on medicine and agriculture -
  Prof Dame Janet Thornton\, Director of EMBL-EBI
DTSTART:20130426T170000Z
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CONTACT:David de Sancho
DESCRIPTION:The advent of cheap genomic sequencing will undoubtedly have a
 n impact in translational research.\nThis will involve many different sect
 ors\, including medicine\, environmental studies\, food security\nand biof
 uels.\n\nBecause it is so generic and potentially sensitive as a method\, 
 it is possible to envisage sequencing\nas the method of choice not only in
  clinical genetics\, but also in diagnosis in many diseases in the\nfuture
 \, moving towards stratified medicine and matching the therapy to the pati
 ent for some\ndiseases and treatments. In agriculture this information is 
 already valuable for speeding up breeding\nprogrammes and for tracking bio
 diversity. Combining genomic and phenotypic data\, including\nthe microbio
 me\, will reveal much about how we as humans function. However for this to
  happen\nthere needs to be a good biological informatics infrastructure to
  handle the data\, to archive the\ndata securely as appropriate and most i
 mportantly to help to analyse the sequence to understand\nits significance
 . None of these is easy to achieve. For example\, the informatics is an in
 tegral part\nof genomic medicine\, and in fact is probably the conduit by 
 which genomic discoveries will be\ntranslated into improved treatments in 
 the clinic.\n\nIn this presentation I shall consider the current status of
  genomic data in translational research\nin the UK and beyond\, the potent
 ial scale of the data for the future and some of the informatics\nchalleng
 es involved. It is necessary to be proactive in seeking solutions to these
  challenges\, so that\nthe benefits of this revolution in sequencing techn
 ology can be efficiently and speedily harnessed to\ntranslate into global 
 benefits.
LOCATION:Old Combination Room (OCR)\, Wolfson College
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