NCRI INFORMATICS - NCI caBIG® JOINT CONFERENCE: FROM COLLABORATION TO IMPLEMENTATION

Prof Richard Begent	Dr Laura Esserman	Dr Ken Buetow

On the 10th and 11th September 2009 the NCRI Informatics Initiative hosted the 3rd annual joint NCRI Informatics Initiative - caBIG® conference in London. The conference this year was entitled Biomedical Informatics Without Borders: From Collaboration to Implementation and aimed to highlight the challenges of implementing informatics solutions in clinical and basic research. It also provided a mechanism for a range of projects to share their experiences; explored the implementation of personalised medicine through IT and discussed methods of empowering the cancer community. The conference was a success in showcasing the work being conducted globally in cancer informatics and we look forward to next year’s conference in the US.

For more information on the conference including the slides and pod casts please visit the conference website.

Winners of the poster competition

"Best Poster" Award Recipient:

Utilising caGrid Infrastructure for Tissue Microarray Analysis
Alex Wright, Jason Lander, Shiv Kaushal, Tony Pan, Ashish Sharma, Fusheng Wang, Tahsin Kurc, and Joel Saltz, Philip Quirke and Darren Treanor

“Outstanding Poster” Award Recipients:

A Novel Computational Paradigm for Cancer Image Classification and Integration in Distributed DatabasesSumeet Dua and Harpreet Singh

ROCK-BCFG: A Breast Cancer Functional Genomics Resource
David Simms, Costas Mitsopoulos, Borisas Bursteinas, Qiong Gao, Ekta Jain, Alan Mckay and Marketa Zvelebil