Co-located with GA4GH 6th Plenary Meeting, October 3-5, 2018

Idash Privacy & Security Workshop 2019 15 October 2019, San Diego The growth of genome data and computational requirements overwhelm the capacity of servers. Many institutions and the NIH are considering cloud computing services as a cost-effective alternative to scale up research. Privacy and security are major concerns when deploying cloud-based data analysis tools. In the past few years, secure computation methods have had significant performance improvement but it is still not clear if they are applicable to biomedical challenges…

Following the success of the past five editions, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Hopitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUGs), together with the i2b2 tranSMART Foundation, are pleased to announce that this year the 6thEuropean i2b2 Academic Users Group (AUG) Meeting will be held in Geneva (Switzerland) on October 31st and November 1st, 2018. This traditional event brings together hundreds of academics, researchers and engineers using i2b2 and/or tranSMART from all over Europe and beyond. Two days of…

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2019 3-7 January 2019, The Big Island of Hawaii The twenty-fourth Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), will be held January 3-7, 2019 at the Fairmont Orchid on the Big Island of Hawaii. PSB will bring together top researchers from North America, the Asian Pacific nations, Europe and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of computational biology.

GA4GH 7th Plenary Meeting 21-23 October 2019, Boston U.S.A The GA4GH 7th Plenary Meeting will be held on October 21-23, 2019 at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston, USA. The 7th Plenary will bring together organizations and stakeholders from the genomics and health community for two days of keynotes, talks, updates, and workshops that will focus on advancing development work for the immediate data sharing needs of the community.

6th International Workshop on ​Genome Privacy and Security 21-22 October 2019, Boston,  USA Over the past several decades, genome sequencing technologies have evolved from slow and expensive systems that were limited in access to a select few scientists and forensics investigators to high-throughput, relatively low-cost tools that are available to consumers.  A consequence of such technical progress is that genomics has become one of the next major challenges for privacy and security because (1) genetic diseases can be unveiled, (2)…

6th iDASH Secure Genome Analysis Competition and Workshop 26 October 2019, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA The 6th iDASH Secure Genome Analysis Competition and Workshop is calling for participation from the academia and the industry to showcase state-of-the-art privacy technologies for protecting real-world biomedical data analysis.  In the past 5 years, the iDASH competition has been serving as a bridge between the privacy/security research and the biomedical research, challenging the security community to come up with the best solutions that can offer…