What we’re up to at ESHG 2017

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We’re really excited to be a part of the ESHG conference again, this time in Copenhagen from the 27th-30th May. We can’t wait to see all the great science that’s going to be presented, but here’s a guide to the talks, workshops and posters from Ensembl and some of our close friends:

W18 – Ensembl & GENCODE Workshop

Monday 29th May 3pm-4:30pm Ancona Room 

This joint workshop is organised and will be presented by Ben Moore and Amonida Zadissa from Ensembl and Adam Frankish from HAVANA. It is aimed at attendees familiar with Ensembl, including wet-lab biologists, clinicians and the bioinformatics community.
The workshop will start with a brief introduction to the Ensembl project and genome browser along with a talk about the gene annotation process carried out by the Ensembl and HAVANA teams to produce the GENCODE gene set.

After the introduction to the Ensembl genome browser, there will be hands-on demonstrations to teach you how to:

  • annotate SNPs and CNVs with functional consequences using the Variant Effect Predictor
  • investigate quick alternatives to the browser (BioMart and the REST API)

You can find more information about the workshop location and timings on the ESHG programme. If you have any questions or want to talk about Ensembl and GENCODE you can e-mail the Ensembl Helpdesk to arrange a time to meet, tweet us or simply come by and meet us after the workshop.

Poster Sessions

As well as the Ensembl and GENCODE workshop, Amonida will also be presenting an electronic poster (E-P16.08) that describes genome annotation and assembly assessment in Ensembl. Electronic Posters will be on display in the Poster Area and can be accessed during exhibition opening hours from 09:30 on Saturday 27th May to 17:45 on Monday 29th May by all participants.

Our friends Jackie, Joannella and Maria from the GWAS catalog will be presenting their work at ESHG.

  • Maria will be presenting an electronic poster (E-P16.12) with new ideas they have for increasing the speed that GWAS data is incorporated into the GWAS Catalog. Electronic Posters will be on display in the Poster Area and can be accessed during exhibition opening hours from 09:30 on Saturday 27th May to 17:45 on Monday 29th May by all participants.
  • Jackie will be presenting a poster about the steps they are taking to ‘Increase the utility of the NHGRI-EBI genome-wide association study (GWAS) Catalog for users’. Jackie’s poster number is P16.36D and you can come and talk to her between 16:45 and 17:45 on Monday 29th May.

Jackie and Maria would love to hear feedback from GWAS Catalog users during the conference, particularly on the new and proposed functionality presented in our posters. They will also be able to answer any questions on the GWAS Catalog. Any users who would like to talk to us should e-mail the GWAS Catalog team at gwas-info@ebi.ac.uk, and they can arrange a time to meet, or simply come by and meet them at their posters.

And last, but not least, Giselle Kerry will be representing The European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA) with a poster about their future plans. Giselle’s poster number is P19.44D and you can come and talk to her between 10:15 and 11:15 on Monday 29th May.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!