American Society of Human Genetics: Schedule of NCBI Workshops, Demonstrations, and Posters

ASHG 2012 Annual Meeting, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California

November 6-10, 2012

Wednesday - Friday, November 7 - 9, 2012

NCBI Booth #224 Time: 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall, Lower Level South

NCBI staff will be available to answer questions, listen to your suggestions, and offer live demonstrations with NCBI tools and databases.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Getting Ready for The Human Phenome Project (Satellite Meeting, San Francisco Marriott Marquis) Time: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM Room: Section 7, Yerba Buena Ballroom, Lower Level B2

Donna Maglott

Managing information about human phenotype at NCBI (9:00 AM - 9:15 AM)

Genome Reference Consortium Workshop Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Room: 236/238, East Mezzanine Level South

Deanna Church

Getting the Most from the Human Genome: Understanding Updates and Improvements in the Reference Assembly

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

NCBI Workshop Time: 12:15 PM - 2:15 PM Room: 304/306, Esplanade Level South

Peter Cooper

Discovering Biological Data at NCBI

Slides

This workshop provides an introduction to using the Entrez system to perform searches and find related data starting with a list of reviewed human genes. Specific tasks covered include finding reference sequences, mapping variations, identifying homologous genes, exploring expression studies, and using MyNCBI to save searches and manage data.

Posters Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM Room: Exhibit Hall, Lower Level South

Deanna Church	Understanding revisions to the human reference genome and assembly model (464W)
Wendy Rubinstein	National Institutes of Health Genetic Testing Registry (1762W)
Steve Sherry	Variation Data Services at NCBI: Archives, Tools, and Curation for Research and Medicine (3582W)
Chunlin Xiao	A Unified Analysis Framework for Detecting Genetic Variations from Next-Generation Sequencing Data (3592W)

Friday, November 9, 2012

Posters Time: 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM Room: Exhibit Hall, Lower Level South

Alejandro Schäffer	Linkage Studies in a Large Stuttering Family Indicate Multiple Novel Loci and Possible Assortative Mating (1958F)
Donna Maglott	NCBI's ClinVar: Data Archive and Tools for Human Variation of Medical Interest (3625F)

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Centralizing the Deposition and Curation of Human Mutations Time: 9:40 AM - 11:40 AM Room: Room 132, Lower Level North

Deanna Church	Improving the accuracy of variant identification
Donna Maglott	Introducing ClinVar