Half Day Workshops

Workshop 1: Agile Answers from Literature: Using Text Mining and Analytics to Drive Decision Support (12:30-4:00pm)

The scientific literature captures the learnings of over a $100 billion investment in biomedical research per year. Our ability to access the knowledge buried in the literature has been limited at best. This workshop will present strategies on using the scientific literature to answer questions that have previously been unanswerable. A comprehensive view of utilizing the literature will be presented and how text mining fits into the overall approach. Everything from accessing the literature, legal issues, text analytics technologies and tools, visualization of results and curation strategies will be covered.

Key topics to be covered:

• What types of questions can be answered using Text Mining
• How to source literature to mine and the complications of copyright and licensing
• What tools are available for text mining and how to get started using them
• Best practice in curation for extracted information
• Visualization and results distribution strategies

Instructors:

William Hayes, Ph.D., Director, Decision Support, R&D IT, Biogen Idec
Phoebe Roberts, Ph.D., Senior Principal Scientist, Biomedical Informatics, Pfizer, Inc.
Larry Hunter, Ph.D., Director, Center for Computational Pharmacology & Computational Bioscience Program, Professor, Pharmacology, University of Colorado 

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Workshop 3: Visualization (8:00-11:30am)

Data visualization is a powerful tool for communicating quantitative information and facilitating effective decision making among researchers, management, healthcare funders, providers, insurers, and policy makers, as well as physicians. Data visualization is a critical component for leveraging data, enabling technology, and transforming medicine. Unfortunately, our visualizations often obscure the reality in the data and may be the cause of naïve, or intentional, miscommunication or distortion. One of the goals of this course is to prevent such unfortunate outcomes by enhancing the ‘graphicacy’ skills of those who use, or prepare, data visualizations for decision making. Additional goals are to deliver the benefits of improving the efficacy of decision making as well as enhancing the productivity of meetings and written communications. This workshop has proven particularly valuable for senior management, who enhance their knowledge to explain exactly how, and why, they want their data presented in new ways.

Instructor:
Howard A. Spielman, Ph.D., M.B.A., Management Semiotics International, Inc.

Workshop 4: Knowledge Management (8:00-11:30am)

This workshop focuses on the integration and application of data to improve R&D productivity and decision making across an organization. Speakers will discuss how they are leveraging informatics to drive innovation and productivity.

Instructor:
Dan Housman, Managing Director, Analytical Applications, Recombinant Data Corp
Griffin M. Weber, M.D., Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, Harvard Medical School

Workshop 5: Imaging Informatics: Optimizing Image Collection, Management and Analysis to Improve Drug Discovery (12:30-4:00pm)

The richness of information in images has made it one of the most popular readouts for high throughput screening in recent years. This increasing amount of images requires the development of tools to automatically analyze and interpret them. However, neither the infrastructure nor the development of image analysis has been able to keep up with the fast growth of image data. This workshop offers you some solutions including data management, image analysis algorithm, image and metadata integration, etc. The main focus of this workshop is to share available resources, experiences and promote discussion for current needs in the HCS community. Some key topics include:

MANAGING

• Image file management; image file and metadata storage and sharing
• Building up infrastructure for image information, coordinate management and storage
• Standardizing the way information from HCS is stored
• Optimizing image collection
• Current tools; image picture archiving systems and software needs

ANALYZING

• Image analysis (cellular vs. tissue, high throughput vs. low throughput, 2D vs. 3D, fixed time point vs. timelapse)
• Tools and infrastructure, integrated solutions
• Novel image analysis protocols and algorithms
• Image processing pitfalls
• Feature extraction from microscopy images
• Machine learning tools to automatically interpret images

Instructors:

Estelle Glory Afshar, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Murphy Lab, Center for Bioimage Informatics, Carnegie Mellon University
Tom Hasaka, Ph.D., Senior Automation Engineer, Broad Institute
Vebjorn Ljosa, Ph.D., Computational Biologist, Broad Institute
Matthew Silva, Ph.D., Head, Imaging Science, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Tiao Xie, Ph.D., Image Analyst, ICCB-Longwood, Systems Biology, Harvard

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All Day Workshops

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Workshop 2: Cloud Computing

Cycle Computing is leading the efforts for many life science organizations in using the cloud, helping research labs and companies leverage internal and external clouds for collaboration, calculations, and storage. We'll cover real-world use cases across drug discovery & design, collaboration, next generation sequencing, proteomics, software as a service, and bioinformatics, to explore how life sciences are using cloud computing, its challenges and effectiveness, how money can be saved by an organization, and regulatory compliance. Join thought leaders in this day long workshop to examine how cloud computing can be used effectively as an external IT service and an internal computing model.

Instructors:
Jason Stowe, Founder, CEO, Cycle Computing
Chris Dagdigian, Founding Partner and Director of Technology, BioTeam, Inc.
Jack Norris, M.B.A., Vice President, Marketing and Corporate Development, ParaScale, Inc.

Andrew Kaczorek, Information Consultant and HPC Specialist, Eli Lilly

Jeremy Lawrence, CIO, The Mind Research Network

Steve Phillpott, CIO, Amylin

Angel Pizarro, Director, University of Pennsylvania ITMAT Bioinformatics Facility

Simon N. Twigger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin

Peter S. Shenkin, Vice President, Schrodinger

* Separate Registration Required