Proceedings of the Tenth Annual UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2011

The University of Tennessee (UT), the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (KBRIN), have collaborated over the past decade to share research and educational expertise in bioinformatics. One result of this collaboration is the joint sponsorship of an annual regional summit to bring together researchers, educators and students who are interested in bioinformatics from a variety of research and educational institutions. This summit provides unique opportunities for collaboration and forging links between members of the various institutions. This year, the Tenth Annual UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit was held at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee from April 1-3, 2011. A total of 225 participants pre-registered for the summit, with 146 from various Tennessee institutions and 60 from various Kentucky institutions. A number of additional participants came from universities and research institutions from other states and countries, e. g. University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, University of British Columbia, University of Cincinnati, Iowa State University, etc. Seventy-four registrants were faculty, with an additional 73 students, 50 staff, and 28 postdoctoral participants. The conference program consisted of three days of presentations. The first day included a pre-summit of talks by researchers supported by the Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (KBRIN), and three workshops covering the topics Next-Generation Sequencing, the workflow platform Galaxy, and GeneMANIA. The next two days were dedicated to scientific presentations divided into three plenary sessions on Pediatric Genetics, Pharmacogenomics and Systems Biology. Each session also included short talks selected from the submitted poster abstracts.

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