Beyond the Genome 2011

The University at Shady Grove
Rockville, Maryland, USA
19 - 22 September 2011

Genome Biology, in conjunction with Genome Medicine, hosted the second annual Beyond the Genome conference at The Universities at Shady Grove. The 2011 conference included a Genome Informatics Workshop before the 3 day conference which focused on cancer genomics, the human microbiome and exome and genomic sequencing and how these approaches are being used to identify common and rare disease-causing mutations. Technological as well as medical or biological perspectives were all discussed.

The organizing committee included Elaine Mardis (Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, USA), Karen Nelson (J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, USA), Mike Schatz (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, USA), Jay Shendure (University of Washington, Seattle, USA), and Genome Biology’s Editor, Clare Garvey

Beyond the Genome 2010

Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
11 - 13 October 2010

This international conference brought together leading researchers and industry representatives who reviewed recent progress in key areas of post-genomic research in biology and medicine and charted future developments, including the Human Microbiome Project and the resequencing of matched tumour and normal genomes from specific types of cancers. A cloud computing workshop, open to all delegates, provided an exciting opportunity to discuss recent and forthcoming developments in this critical and fast-moving field with policy makers and commercial and academic representatives of the genomics community and cloud platforms.

The organizing committee included Michele Clamp (Bioteam, Boston, USA) Clare Garvey (Genome Biology, London, UK) Elaine Mardis (Washington University School of Medicine, USA) Steven McCarroll (Harvard Medical School, USA) Chris Ponting (University of Oxford, UK) Steven Salzberg (University of Maryland, USA) Sarah Tishkoff (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Jun Wang (Beijing Genomics Institute, China)

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