Bioinformatics and the Unprecedented COVID-19 Vaccine Race (Fiona Hyland, Director of R&D, Informatics, Thermo Fisher Scientific)

Data Science Leaders

English - June 08, 2021 09:00 - 44 minutes - 81 MB - ★★★★★ - 82 ratings
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The field of bioinformatics plays a critical role in medical breakthroughs like the COVID-19 vaccine.

Fiona Hyland , Director of R&D, DNA Sequencing Informatics at Thermo Fisher Scientific , teaches all of us about how it happened in the latest episode of Data Science Leaders.

What we talked about:

- A quick run through genetics and bioinformatics terminology

- Bioinformatics, and the genetics of cancer and the coronavirus

- The role of data science in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine

Check out these resources we mentioned during the podcast:

- COSMIC genetic database

- The 1000 Genomes Project

- gnomAD Genome Aggregation Database

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