Keynote speaker Tim Hubbard from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

The next 10 years of genome content management is the subject of a conference being staged at the Babraham Research Campus.

It’s the second annual symposium organised by bioinformatics consultancy Eagle Genomics, which is based on the campus.

The keynote speaker will be Tim Hubbard from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute – alongside speakers from organisations including the Health Protection Agency, Pfizer, the Sainsbury Laboratory and the Institute for Food Research.

“The sequenced genomes of human and several other species have been with us for over 10 years but debates still rage about the best practices for storing and analysing the ever-increasing volume of associated data,” said Eagle Genomics chief executive David Flanders.

“Such practices are defined as genome content management – ie the processes of storing and delivering genomic data and information, which started with the first genome browsers but has since spread into many areas of operational bioinformatics.

“This one-day symposium will hear from various experts from industry and academia on how they are applying the principles of genome content management to their own data sets.

“The focus will be on analysing and annotating large volumes of data to turn it into information, and presenting that information to the end user to enable hypotheses to be made and theories proposed.”

The conference is being held on Thursday, March 29. For more information, go to www.eaglegenomics.com