{"55024":{"#nid":"55024","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Opening the Pan-Genomics Box","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETimothy D. Read Ph.D.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDivision of Infectious Diseases \u0026amp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EDepartment of Human Genetics\u003Cbr \/\u003EEmory University School of Medicine\u003Cbr \/\u003EDirector, Emory GRA Genomics Center\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETechnologies now exist for very rapid, accurate whole genome sequencing of microorganisms, ensuring that any future novel emerging disease agent is likely to be sequenced very shortly after isolation in pure culture.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor many species we have moved rapidly out of the discovery-rich \u2018genomic era\u2019 into a \u2018population genomic era\u2019 where the accumulated data can be used to develop new hypothesis and perform in silico reality testing of experimental ideas.\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor most uses, large populations of high redundancy draft genomes are sufficient to help with design of better vaccines and diagnostics. There are opportunities to develop new tools, to create better genome sequences and to address interesting but difficult problems like predicting the level of virulence of a pathogen for a given host.\u0026nbsp; These challenges require integrating data from functional studies, proteomics and transcriptomics.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Presented by the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics"}],"uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-03-19 17:40:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:49:23","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-03-30T17:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2010-03-30T18:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-03-30T18:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-03-30 21:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-03-30 22:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-03-30 22:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMark Borodovsky\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:borodovsky@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eborodovsky@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}