The New York Bioinformatics User Group (NYBUG) would like to invite you to a meeting entitled Variant Detection

The New York Bioinformatics User Group (NYBUG) would like to invite you to a meeting entitled Variant Detection: From Analysis to Applicationon Friday March 22nd 2013 in New York City. The meeting is being hosted by the Simons Foundation and will take place in the Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium (see below for details).

NYBUG provides a forum for discussing current research in the areas of Bioinformatics and Clinical Genomics, and this meeting aims to highlight the advances and challenges of identifying and analyzing sequence variation in the research and clinical settings.

The program will include four speakers:

* Mark A. DePristo
Co-director, Medical and Population Genetics at Broad Institute

* Daniel MacArthur
Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School

* Mark Gerstein
Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Yale University

* Barry S. Taylor
Assistant Professor at UCSF

We will also have a presentation from the New York Genome Center.

The meeting will take place from 12:30 to 5:30 PM on Friday March 22nd at

    Simons Foundation
    Gerald D. Fischbach Auditorium
    160 Fifth Ave., 2nd floor (entrance on 21st St.)
    New York, NY 10010

If you would like to attend please RSVP by March 4th to meetings@nybug.org