MAQC Society’s 2022 SEQC2 Webinar Series – Exploring best practices for structural variation detection in a cancer reference sample with multiple NGS platforms

The MAQC Society is pleased to announce a new series of SEQC2 (Sequencing and Quality Control Phase 2) Webinars addressing the many challenges of analysis of massive datasets that come from Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS).  This year, in 2022, MAQC offers a new webinar series on diverse topics related to NGS:  copy-number pathogenicity, structural variation detection, use of internal standards and synthetic controls for variant detection, formalin-fixation impacts, and general reproducibility challenges.

On 29 March the webinar is titled: “Exploring best practices for structural variation detection in a cancer reference sample with multiple NGS platforms” by Yongmei Zhao Ph. D. who is the Bioinformatics Manager of the Sequencing Facility Bioinformatics Group at National Cancer Institute/Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research. She has over 20 years of working experience in the fields of bioinformatics, genomics, and high-performance computing. She leads a team of bioinformatics analysts and provides Next-generation Sequencing (NGS) analysis and bioinformatics support to investigators at National Cancer Institute. Her group is also actively engaging in research community efforts for benchmarking studies aiming for the best practice development in NGS data analysis.

Check out the other 5 webinars as well:

• 22. March 2022  – Zhichao Liu X-CNV: genome-wide prediction of the pathogenicity of copy number variations (LINK)
• 29 March 2022 – Yongmei Zhao Exploring best practices for structural variation detection in a cancer reference sample with multiple NGS platforms
• 5 April 2022 – James C. Willey Advancing quality-control for NGS measurement of actionable mutations in circulating tumour DNA (LINK)
• 12 April 2022 – Joshua Xu Deep oncopanel sequencing reveals within block position-dependent quality degradation in FFPE processed samples (LINK)
• 19 April 2022 – Tim R. Mercer Resolving the complexity of the human genome using synthetic chromosomal controls & Building a synthetic genome that encodes DNA, mRNA and protein controls (LINK)
• 3 May 2022 – Fritz Sedlazeck Hidden biases in germline structural variant detection (LINK)

Read more here. Free registration for the webinars is open here.