Festival of Genomics London

I visited "Festival of Genomics London" in ExCel London Exhibition Centre, at January 20th, 21st, 2016.

Genomics is one of my hobby.

My impressed points

• Climax of Cambridge and Genome Campus in Hinxton, south of Cambridge are the centre of Genomics industry.
  • UK gov's aggressive action and investment to the industry. 100K Genome Project.
  • Genome England new office will be in Genome Campus with Trust Sanger, EMBI EBI (Europe Bioinformatics Institute).
  • Illumina new Europe HQ office in Cambridge.

• "Seven Bridges" rapidly growth.
  • New San Francisco Office in US, in 2016. Expanding Belgrade Serbia office.
  • Work with UK, US governments.
  • Many analysis tools.

• Linux Container tech such as Docker becomes popular in the Genome industry.
  • Container service: Seven Bridges, Data Biology(Databiology - Home), and etc.
  • Roche's case for using Docker container.

• Genome Study & Community
  • Elixir Europe: https://www.elixir-europe.org/
  • NHS Genetics Education: http://geneticseducation.nhs.uk/