This presentation will provide a general, high-level introduction to the current state of the analysis of genomic data in public health labs in the US.
Featured Speaker
Drew MacKellar, PhD
Bioinformatician
Washington State Department of Health
Learning Objectives
- Understand the history of how sequencing has been applied in tracking outbreaks to date
- Describe the assessment of raw sequencing read quality
- Identify the interpretation of genomic relatedness via phylogenetic trees