Handling Pandemic Omics Data in the Nordics
A two-days online meeting that will bring perspectives on Nordic infrastructures and approaches used to handle SARS-Cov-2 sequencing data. The event will take place on 18-19 May 2022 from 9-12 CEST (Central European Summer Time). It is organised by members of ELIXIR nodes (Norway, Sweden, and Estonia) and the SciLifeLab Data Centre.
About
The current COVID-19 pandemic has understandably received considerable attention worldwide over the last few years. As it spread across the globe, the pandemic posed significant challenges for society, governmental bodies, healthcare systems, and research communities. Unprecedented efforts were necessary to generate, handle, and report the sheer amount of complex data required to be able to understand how SARS-CoV-2 was spreading, and develop efficient policies to fight the pandemic.
In this online event, we will focus on how the Nordic region handled omics data. We will focus in particular on how sequencing efforts were coordinated, how data was managed and shared, and how data was used and communicated to different groups. We will also discuss the importance of the FAIR principles in pandemic data management, and which tools and pipelines facilitated efforts. We also hope to identify key resources that have wider applicability and can be reused further.
Speakers
The speakers are listed in the order of the programme sessions. The programme is currently under development.
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Panel Discussion
Nordic region
We will discuss lessons learned and best practices that could be adopted across the Nordics for future pandemics, and how we might best prepare for them.