University of Georgia Institute of Bioinformatics Invited Seminar

On February 5th the University of Georgia Institute of Bioinformatics hosted Dr. Kyle Hernandez from the Center for Translational Data Science for a seminar on large scale bioinformatics in the Genomic Data Commons. His seminar defined the term “data commons” and discussed its application, focusing on the genomic data harmonization systems in the GDC. He also discussed the GDC Pipeline Automation System (GPAS), its core database and data import, as well as its workflow.