Natasha Caminsky presented:

A Unified Framework for the Identification and Prioritization of Coding and Non-Coding Variants in Heritable Breast and Ovarian Cancer (HBOC).

which introduces Cytognomix’s approach for analysis of a wide range of regulatory mutations in complete human gene and genome data. The other authors of this study were  Mucaki EJ, Lu R, Perri AM, and Rogan PK.

This is an annual event for scientists, clinicians, graduate students and Post-Doctoral fellows at the University of Western Ontario and affiliated hospitals to share cancer research discoveries and promote cancer research collaboration and training.   She was awarded Best Oral Presentation for this paper.

The Breast Cancer Society of Canada blogged the results of the paper competition: link

Today, Cytognomix Inc. and Illumina  signed a distribution agreement to make MutationForecaster software available through the BaseSpace ecosystem. Work is underway to enable Illumina users to analyze data processed in BaseSpace to be interpreted with Cytognomix’s software.  The BaseSpace environment enables MiSeq users to carry out sequence analyses with requiring an  onsite computing infrastructure, with scalable cloud data storage, to manage all of your data analyses, to securely collaborate, and to share and access Illumina and community-developed applications. MutationForecaster will import variant control format files, validate them with RNASeq Bam files from the same sample directly from BaseSpace  and download results from Cytognomix back to BaseSpace.