12th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Program information
is now available:


Detailed Agenda


Oral Presentations


- Detailed Poster Abstracts
- Brief Poster List
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Hotel reservations
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Rocky 2014 to be held again at Viceroy in Snowmass:

VICEROY HOTEL
130 Wood Road
Snowmass Village, Colorado 81615 USA
Phone: +1 970 923 8000
Fax: +1 970 923 8001

viceroyhotelsandresorts.com/
snowmass

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SILVER:

Biodesix®
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TECHNICAL TALK:

Illumina®....................................

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WELCOME TO ROCKY 2014!
December 11 - 13, 2014

Welcome to the twelfth annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference, a meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). The organizers hope that you enjoy the program, and find the conference a productive opportunity to meet researchers, students and industrial users of bioinformatics technology.

The Rocky series began twelve years ago as a regional conference, and has grown into an international program with a spotlight on regional development in the computational biosciences. The presenters of the Rocky conference are scientists representing a broad spectrum of universities, industrial enterprises, government laboratories, and medical libraries from around the world. The meeting is a chance to get to know your colleagues near and far, seek collaborative opportunities, and find synergies that can drive our field forward.

We hope you enjoy the science, the company, and the spectacular scenery of the Rocky Mountains. Welcome!

Larry Hunter
Rocky 2014 Conference Chair


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Judith A. Blake, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The Jackson Laboratory

Title: Glycolysis Pathways in the Gene Ontology: All Roads Lead to Pyruvate

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Robert Kirk DeLisle, PhD Robert Kirk DeLisle, PhD
Principal Scientist
SomaLogic, Inc.
Colorado

Title:  SOMAscan™– Based Prediction of Early Kidney Function Decline

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Kirk E. Jordan, PhD
IBM Distinguished Engineer
Emerging Solutions Executive & Assoc. Prog. Director
Computational Science Center
IBM T.J. Watson Research

Title: Experience in Improving de novo Transcriptome Assembly to Address Large Data Sets

Co-Authors: Chang-Sik Kim, Vipin Sachdeva, Martyn Winn

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Frank Lee, Ph.D.
Lead Architect, IBM Genomics Solution
Technical Advisor for Life Sciences
Senior-certified Solution Architect
IBM Technical & Platform Computing Worldwide

Title: Tackling Big Data Challenges of Genomics by PowerGene

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Kevin M. Livingston, PhD
Research Associate
University of Colorado

Title: Complex Querying Across Multiple Data Sources Using a Common Biological Model

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Jill P. Mesirov, PhD
Associate Director and Chief Informatics Officer
Director, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Cambridge, MA, USA

Title: Integrative Computational Approaches for Genomic Medicine

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Elmar A Pruesse, PhD Elmar A. Pruesse, PhD
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
AND University of Colorado Denver

Title: Tackling the rRNA big-data problem with ARB and SILVA

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Joanna Roder, PhD Joanna Roder, PhD
Senior Director of Data Analytics
R&D
Biodesix, Inc.

Title: Deep Learning, "Deep Data", and Molecular Diagnostics

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Donna K. Slonim, PhD
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Associate Professor of the Tufts School of Medicine
Genetics Faculty, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences
Tufts University
Medford, MA, USA

Title: Human Developmental Bioinformatics: A Case Study in Overcoming Data Limitations

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Raymond Tecotzky TECHNICAL TALK

Raymond Tecotzky
Market Manager, Informatics Ecosystem
Illumina, Inc.

Title:  Progress Report: From Sample to Answer - Sequencing in the Cloud Era with the Illumina BaseSpace®Bioinformatics Platform

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