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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Carla Cummins

European Bioinformatics Institute

The European COVID-19 Data Platform Infrastructure

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Nils Peder Willassen

ELIXIR Norway

Norwegian efforts towards SARS-Cov-2 data mobilisation

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Jon Bråte

Folkehelseinstituttet

Perspective of public health authority and data brokering

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Wolmar Nyberg Åkerström

NeIC, ELIXIR Sweden, NBIS

Nordic Pandemic Research Infrastructure

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Aitana Lebrand

ELIXIR Europe

Mobilisation of SARS-CoV-2 variant surveillance data tracking services and tools

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Katharina Lauer

ELIXIR Europe

BY-COVID

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Liane Hughes

SciLifeLab Data Centre

Sweden's Covid-19 Data Portal

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Parul Tewatia

SciLifeLab Data Centre

Mobilisation of SARS-Cov-2 Data

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Henning Onsbring

Clinical Genomics Stockholm, SciLifeLab

Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 in Sweden

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Francesca Morello

ELIXIR Finland & CSC - IT Center for Science

Data sharing

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Teemu Smura

University of Helsinki

SARS-Cov-2 data handling in Finland

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Hedi Peterson

ELIXIR Estonia

Estonia's Covid-19 Data Portal and dashboards

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Heleri Inno

ELIXIR Estonia

Mobilisation of SARS-Cov-2 Data

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Panel Discussion

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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.

Organisers

Nazeefa Fatima

Norway

Liane Hughes

Sweden

Heleri Inno

Estonia

Wolmar Nyberg Åkerström

Sweden

Korbinian Michael Bösl

Norway

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Nordic Computational Biology