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Insights into cancer genomics via COSMIC v98
2023-07-11 11:00 - 12:30 UTC | Virtual - Americas - EST, United States
Our understanding of cancer mechanisms, genetics and complexities continues to expand rapidly. Without a streamlined, standardized and easy to understand organizational system to keep track of this plethora of knowledge, potentially crucial data can effectively be lost. Trusted by scientists for nearly 20 years, COSMIC is the world’s largest, most comprehensive, expert-curated resource for exploring the impact of somatic mutations in human cancers.

Join Leonie Hodges, Scientific Communications Officer for COSMIC, for this webinar to take a journey through COSMIC’s mission, the results of our latest curation focus and how we have developed our download files to improve accessibility and useability.

Through the lens of COSMIC v98, participants of this session will:

Delve into our manual curation and rigorous data annotation processes, and how the resulting gold standard data enables users to experiment and innovate with confidence.
Gain insight into the motivations behind our curation focuses and the results of our latest focus: rare skin tumors, including new tumor types/histologies, a newly fully curated cancer gene and more.
Explore the revamped COSMIC download files, with particular focus on their interoperability, accessibility and useability.

Pathogen detection and variant analysis using hybrid capture technology and QIAGEN CLC Genomics Workbench
2023-07-11 13:00 - 14:30
The detection and surveillance of pathogens such as respiratory viruses, sexually transmitted pathogens, adventitious agents and antimicrobial-resistant bacteria are increasingly important in healthcare settings and environmental monitoring. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of identifying and differentiating variants of concern. By applying the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic to other pathogens of interest, it’s clear there’s a widespread need for the ability to target sensitive variants using next-generation sequencing (NGS) enrichment strategies and to analyze NGS data.
In this training, we'll use QIAGEN CLC Genomics Workbench to analyze NGS data generated from hybrid capture technology. Using data generated from QIAGEN HYB panels, you'll learn how to import, analyze and interpret NGS data. Specifically, you’ll discover:
1. How to import NGS data into QIAGEN CLC Genomics Workbench
2. How to analyze the data using template workflows;
3. How to interpret the results using the interactive graphics produced by the workflows;
4. How to modify the template workflows to accommodate custom panels
