Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2013

The University of Tennessee (UT), the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (KBRIN), have collaborated over the past twelve years 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 Twelfth Annual UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit was held at Paris Landing State Park in Buchanan, TN from March 22-24, 2013. A total of 182 participants pre-registered for the summit, with 116 from various Tennessee institutions and 54 from various Kentucky institutions. A number of additional participants came from universities and research institutions from other states and countries, e.g. University of British Columbia, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, Michigan State University, University of Cincinnati, Iowa State University, etc. Sixty-six registrants were faculty, with an additional 46 students, 43 staff, and 92 postdoctoral participants. The conference program consisted of three days of presentations. The first afternoon consisted of two workshops, one for Next-Generation Sequence Analysis, and a second on analysis of data resulting from the Conditions Affecting Neurocognitive Development and Learning in Early childhood (CANDLE) project. The remainder was dedicated to scientific presentations divided into three plenary sessions on Next-Generation Sequencing, Translational Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology. In addition, ten short talks were selected from 43 submitted poster abstracts.

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