Panel: Serbia’s resources for storage and analyses of genetic data

Serbia’s resources for storage and analyses of genetic data

Moderator: Dr. Branislava Gemović, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution; “Vinča” Institute of Nuclear Sciences

Panelists

  1. Jelena Bojović – Director of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
  2. Bogdan Stešević – Head of the group for quality of services and development of artificial intelligence, Office for Information Technologies and e-Government
  3. Dr. Mirjana Novkovic – Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering
  4. Dušan Lazić – Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade
  5. Dr. David Ruau – Head of Strategic Alliances, Drug Discovery AI, EMEA at NVIDIA (online)

Agenda

10:00-10:20

Panel discussion on current resources for storage and analyses of genetic data in Serbia

10:20–10:35

Online participation from NVIDIA

10:35–10:45

Comments of the Panel

10:45–11:10

Panel discussion on the Genetic and Biomedical Data Registry and plans for the future

11:10–11:40

Coffee Break

11:40–12:00

Presentation of Public-private partnership for genetic data – IMGGE and Roche

Dr. Branka Zukić, Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering and Dr. Igor Petković, Roche

Topics for the Panel

  • Review of the current state of the resources for storage and analyses of data in Serbia; resources managed by the Office for Information Technologies and e-Government
  • What is the use of these resources for genetic data? What are the services, who is using them?
  • Current usage of the resources, examples and experiences
  • Use of NVIDIA supercomputer for the analyses of genetic data; Clara Parabricks for large scale genomics analyses
  • Examples of national platforms for genetic data worldwide, using NVIDIA
  • Differences between GPU and CPU resources for analyses of genetic and other biomedical data
  • Genetic and Biomedical Data Registry
  • Role of the Office for Information Technologies and e-Government, as a resource provider, related to Registry and genetic data
  • Use and value of Registry for the institutions doing research in genomics and bioinformatics
  • Plans for the extension of current resources
  • Human capacities for bioinformatics analyses in Serbia, what is the future need? Also, additional needs regarding the infrastructure
  • Plans for strengthening bioinformatics community

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