Workshops 01-02 - Saturday, 10.30 - 12.00 hrs
Workshop outlines are published as submitted by the organisers. Note that the content of the workshop is under the sole responsibility of the respective workshop organisers.
WS01. A case that changed my life as a geneticist
Organisers: H. Brunner; M. Macek Jr.
For the First time, the ESHG conference in Glasgow 2015 will has a session dedicated to storytelling in Medical Genetics.
We have invited professionals in medical genetics to submit a short video in which they describe an event or moment when genetics made a difference and had a profound impact on how they see the field of Medical Genetics.
These stories can be happy, sad, informative or funny. The only requirement was that they are real experiences of yourself or your colleagues. We have selected 5 geneticists to tell their story and to be interviewed by the moderators:
The Salty Babies Died Young
Jamie L. Kostialik, Long Beach, CA, United States
Genetics in Technology
Ibrahim Akalin, Istanbul, Turkey
A Clinical Geneticist in China
Maya Chopra, Shanghai, China
A Totally Inbred Village
Asli Tolun, Istanbul, Turkey
The hunting for homozygous
Halyna Makukh, Lviv, Ukraine
WS02. NGS Variant Analysis with Galaxy
Organisers: Dave Clements
Galaxy is a free and open source data integration and analysis platform for life sciences research (http://www.galaxyproject.org). This workshop will briefly introduce the Galaxy platform and then walk through a live multi-step variant calling analysis using human data and Galaxy's rich tool set. The analysis will highlight Galaxy‘s collaboration, publishing, reproducibility, and visualisation features.
Previous experience using Galaxy is helpful, but not required. All workflows and analyses from the workshop will be made publicly available at https://www.usegalaxy.org