International de.NBI Symposium "Bioinformatics for Human Health & Disease"

The Heidelberg Center for Human Bioinformatics will be hosting an International de.NBI Symposium, "Bioinformatics for Human Health and Disease"  in Heidelberg, Germany, 7-9 November 2016.

This international symposium will mark the launch of a series of annual international conferences on bioinformatics by the German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (de.NBI) and covers a diversity of topics concerned with human bioinformatics in disease related contexts, such as:

• Clinical genomics
• Human microbiomes in health and disease
• Integrative omics analyses
• Systems biology
• Epigenetics
• Functional annotation and understanding of normal and cancer genome variants
• Bioimage informatics of cellular and tissue model systems
• Bioinformatics as a service in biomedical research
• Collaborative development and interoperability

Confirmed speakers include ELIXIR Director, Niklas Blomberg and ELIXIR Head of Human Genomics and Translational Data, Serena Scollen.