Program schedule: "Best Practices for Functional Genomics Data Sharing and Integration"
January 25-26, 2012
Boston, MA

Wed. Jan 25

8:00am	Continental Breakfast
8:30	Introductions and Agenda for the Day: Alvis Brazma & John Quackenbush
9:00–9:20	Mike Kellen (Sage Bionetworks):
	Sage Bionetworks Synapse Project
9:25–9:45	Guy Cochrane (European Bioinformatics Institute):
	Implementation of Existing Standards and Defining Emerging Needs:
	A Public Sequence Database Perspective
9:50–10:10	Francis Ouelette (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research):
	How Data is Handled and Distributed for the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC)
10:15–10:35	Richard Scheuermann (UT Southwestern Medical Center):
	Standardizing Metadata Associated with NIAID Genome Sequencing Center Projects
10:34-10:45am	Break
10:45–11:05	Purvesh Khatri (Stanford University):
	Accounting for Pathway-Cross Talk Identifies Role of Monocytes in Rransplant Rejection

11:10–11:30	Jean-Phillipe Cartailler (Vanderbilt Center for Stem Cell Biology):
	Data Integration and Sharing in the Beta Cell Biology Consortium
11:35–11:55	Steve Chervitz (Omicia):
	Genome Variation File Formats: A View from the Trenches
12:00–1:30pm	Lunch
1:00–1:20	Mark Gerstein (Yale University):
	Functional Genomics Data Integration
1:25–1:45	Tanya Barrett (National Center for Biotechnology Information):
	Current Status, Data Flow and Standards for Functional Genomic Studies at NCBI
1:50–2:10	Michael Miller (Institute for Systems Biology):
	The Cancer Genome Atlas: Herding Cats and Exchanging Genomic Data
2:15–2:35	Oliver Hoffman (Harvard School of Public Health):
	ISA-TAB and the Stem Cell Discovery Engine
2:40–3:00	Carol Bult (The Jackson Laboratory):
	Data Integration Strategies for the Mouse Genome Informatics Database
3:00–3:15	Break
3:15–5:00	Group Discussion and Summarization of Lessons Learned
5:00–7:00pm	Free Time, Networking

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Thur. Jan 26

8:00–8:30am	Continental breakfast
8:30–10:00	Group Discussion of Potential Standards Creation/Unification
10:00–10:15	Break
10:15–12:00	Discussion of Potential Collaborations, Future Meetings, etc.
12:00	Meeting Adjourn
12:00–4:00pm	Working Lunch and FGED Board Meeting