Capturing and Sequencing the Entire Human Exome
Presented by Roche NimbleGen, Inc.

Speaker: Thomas J. Albert, Ph.D. Senior Director, Research and Development

Interpreting the Human Genome with Affymetrix DNA Products
Presented by Affymetrix

Speaker: Marcus Hausch

The Affymetrix SNP 6.0 array has been designed in a collaborative effort between the Broad Institute and Affymetrix. Recent publications in Nature Genetics high light the performance and utility of the SNP 6.0 array for GWAS studies that integrate SNP, CNP and rare CNVs information.

The presentation will highlight key findings from those publications and discuss available integrated data analysis option using the Affymetrix GTC 3.0.

The workshop will also focus the advantages the SNP 6.0 offers for cytogenetic applications as well as applications in cancer research.

Finally the workshop will provide details on the recently launched DMET Plus Premier Pack the most comprehensive, cost-effective product containing known pharmacogenetic markers for drug metabolism studies. The DMET Plus Premier Pack standardizes drug metabolism studies and enables faster discovery and measurement of genetic variation associated with drug response compared to traditional methods.

The SOLiD 3 System - Taking Next Generation Sequencing to the Next Level
Presented by Applied Biosystems

Speaker: Michael Rhodes, Ph.D., Product Applications Senior Manager, Genetic Analysis, High Throughput Discovery, Applied Biosystems

The NEW SOLiD™ 3 System achieves new milestones in throughput in excess of 20 Gb of mate paired sequence data from a single run and 30-40 Gb of demonstrated throughput in Applied Biosystems R&D labs. Maintaining high accuracy, improvements in read length and unique mate-pair library strategies, the new system enables expanding applications from whole genome resequencing and SNP discovery to miRNA profiling. This presentation will review various applications that the new system capabilities enable and discuss an example of whole genome transcript profiling in single cells and whole genome resequencing for SNP and structural rearrangement discovery.

Advances in Copy Number Determination via Microarrays and Oligonucleotide-Based FISH
Presented by Agilent

Speaker: Laurakay Bruhn Ph.D., Agilent Laboratories, Santa Clara, CA, USA

Join Agilent Technologies for a presentation on recent technological advances in oligonucleotide-based array CGH and FISH. Learn how advances in our oligonucleotide printing technology can make more flexible and refined measurements for the discovery and characterization of copy number variations.