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This webinar does not contain continuing education credit (CME and CMLE)
This AMP certificate program contains ~6 hours of lecture content, the associated pdf slides of the lectures, a pre-course exam, a post-course exam, and an AMP Certificate of Completion.
This certificate program is designed to give participants a deep dive into the challenges and proposed solutions in bioinformatics for next generation sequencing (NGS) testing. The talks go beyond the typical basics in bioinformatics of detecting simple point mutations and small indels into harder-to-detect genomic anomalies.
The talks in this Certificate Program discuss common problems and challenges seen in NGS data. These include strand bias, false positives, homology to interpretation challenges with databases, and HGVS nomenclature and proposed solutions for each of these. Speakers present a closer look at complex bioinformatics pipelines from selected laboratories, as well as an overview of advanced methods and technologies to detect complicated genomic anomalies. These anomalies include structural variants, copy number calling and fusion detection using both short and long read sequencing, as well as DNA and RNA assays.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the principles of a bioinformatics pipeline, including its complexities and caveats with examples and case studies.
- Explain some of the technical challenges in short NGS reads such as those due to homology, strand bias, false positive calls, pseudogenes, etc.
- Design integrative modules to detect complex genomic anomalies such as large insertion/deletion mutations, structural variants and gene fusions.
- Describe the strengths and shortcomings of using short and long read technologies and bioinformatics methods to detect structural variants.
- Describe the advantages and challenges of using RNA sequencing in detection of gene fusions in cancer.
Target Audience: Molecular pathologists, informatics professionals, lab directors, and trainees.
Duration: 6.25 hours
Level: Intermediate
AMP Certificate Program Launched: July 15, 2020
TOPICS COVERED: Click here for a detailed course outline of the certificate program.
The video below is an excerpt from the welcome message and discusses the topics that will be covered in the Certificate Program.
Faculty:
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| Sabah Kadri, PhD Content Director |
Catherine E. Cottrell, PhD | Birgit Funke, PhD, FACMG | Kevin Halling, MD, PhD |
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| Marcin Imielinski, MD | Vincent Magrini, PhD | Ryan Mills, PhD | Mark Routbort, MD, PhD |
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| Avni B. Santani, PhD | Jeremy Segal, MD, PhD | Ahmet Zehir, PhD | Justin M. Zook, PhD |
This certificate program was planned and coordinated by the Content Committee: 
Sabah Kadri, PhD
Content Director
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Weiwei Zhang, PhD
University of Nebraska Medical Center
and supported by the Training and Education Committee
"[The course] is very comprehensive and informative in the most challenging aspects of sequence bioinformatics. Every talk in the course brings a unique perspective to the audience for understanding the "hard" parts of bioinformatics."
- Somak Roy, MD University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT INFORMATION
CME/CMLE is not available for this course.
About AMP Certificate Programs: AMP Certificate Programs are thematically bundled packages containing some repurposed and some newly recorded content and does not necessarily build on previous recordings. It is designed to help you develop knowledge and skills needed for success in molecular pathology and diagnostics. Each program is reviewed, vetted, and curated by expert content directors. All certificate programs include a post-course final exam and an AMP Certificate of Completion. Some certificate programs are also available for CME or CMLE credit.
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