PROGRAM


Friday, May 3

Registration


8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Lobby

Saturday, May 4

Registration


8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Venue: Marvin Center, Lobby

Welcome and Introductory Remarks


8:30 AM - 8:50 AM
Speakers: Gustavo Stolovitzky (IBM Research) and Laura Heiser (Oregon Health & Science University)
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

precisionFDA-CPTAC Challenge

Right data for right patient: the FDA-CPTAC multi-omics mislabeling challenge


Speaker: Bing Zhang (Baylor College of Medicine)
8:50 AM - 9:10 AM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Integrated Analysis of Multi-omics Data for Clinical Use [Best Performer Talk]


Speaker: Renke Pan (Sentieon, Inc.)
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Identifying Mislabeled Samples in Multi-omics Datasets [Best Performer Talk]


Speaker: Anders Carlsson (Bionamic, Lund University)
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Keynote


The Challenge and Promise of Interpreting RNA Sequence to Unravel Tumor Mysteries

Josh Stuart (UC Santa Cruz)


9:50 AM - 10:30 AM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Coffee Break


10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 309

SMC-RNA DREAM Challenge

Overview of the DREAM SMC-RNA Isoform Quantification and Fusion Detection Challenge


Speaker: Kyle Elrott (Oregon Health & Science University)
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Arriba: a computational tool to detect gene fusions from next-generation sequencing data in personalized oncology [Best Performer Talk]


Speaker: Sebastian Uhrig (DKFZ)
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Fast and accurate cancer fusion transcript detection by STAR-Fusion [Best Performer Talk]


Speaker: Brian Haas (Broad Instititue)
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Lunch Break


12:00 PM - 1:20 PM

Public Data Resources

NCI Cancer Target Discovery and Development (CTD) Network: planned Challenges


Speaker: Daniela S. Gerhard (Director of the NCI's Office of Cancer Genomics)
1:20 PM - 1:30 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

NCI Cancer Research Data Commons


Speaker: Allen Dearry (NCI)
1:30 PM - 1:40 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Generation and benchmarking of a 1000 Genomes gVCF resource for variant calling



Speaker: Jonathan Pevsner (Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
)
1:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Science Driven by Space Biology Omics Data Utilizing NASA GeneLab Platform


Speaker: Afshin Beheshti (WYLE Labs, NASA Ames Research Center, NASA)
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Indexing Massive NIH Datasets with NCBI-led Hackathons


Speaker: Ben Busby (NCBI)
2:20 PM - 2:30 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

NCI CPTAC Big and Open Data Projects


Speaker: Henry Rodriguez (NCI)
2:30 PM - 2:40 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Utility of proteogenomics data in immunotherapy


Speaker: Bing Zhang (Baylor College of Medicine)
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Goals and Challenges of the NCI Human Tumor Atlas Network


Speaker: Shannon Hughes (NCI)
3:00 PM - 3:10 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Challenges and opportunities in the analysis of single-cell data generated from tumor specimens


Speaker: Ken Lau (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
3:10 PM - 3:30 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Coffee Break


3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 309

The Importance of Large and Systematic Perturbational Studies with LINCS program as an example


Speaker: Ajay Pillai (NHGRI)
4:00 PM - 4:10 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Integrative analysis of phenotypic and molecular responses to high-impact microenvironmental signals


Speaker: Laura Heiser (Oregon Health & Science University)
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Challenge Ideas Using Public Data Resources

Preparation for Break Out Session


4:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Break out Session: Brainstorm about Possible Challenge Ideas


4:45 PM - 5:30 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Ground Floor, G-08, G-12, and G-16

Report Back on the Breakout Sessions and Next Steps


5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Venue: Marvin Center, Room 308

Poster Session and Reception


6:00 PM - 8:00 PM


Venue: Marvin Center, Room 309