ENCODE 2015: Research Applications and Users Meeting

On June 29 - July 1, 2015, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) sponsored the ENCODE 2015: Research Applications and Users Meeting at the Bolger Center in Potomac, MD. Feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive, and discussions are underway for planning a second Users Meeting in 2016 on the west coast.

The meeting featured:

  • Hands-on workshops on learning to navigate, analyze, and integrate ENCODE and mouseENCODE data into your research
  • Leading-edge research applications from distinguished invited speakers
  • Tutorials on newly-available informatics pipelines that greatly facilitate working with ENCODE data
  • Short talks selected from abstracts

Meeting materials: Agenda | Abstracts

Tutorials and Presentations

   Monday, June 29, 2015

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1

Using ENCODE Data to Interpret Disease-associated Genetic Variation

Mike Pazin

NHGRI

Slides 

Keynote Lecture

2

Data Integration: Genome x Transcriptome x EMR

Nancy Cox

Vanderbilt University

 

Scientific Session 1: Common Disease

3

An Epigenomic and Transcriptional Basis for Insulin Resistance

Evan Rosen

Harvard Medical School

Slides 

4

Identifying Dysregulated Genes in Autoimmune Disease

Chris Cotsapas

Yale Medical School

Slides

5

Enhancers: Regulatory Control Elements in Health and Disease

J. Wesley Pike

University of Wisconsin

 

6

Mapping the Epigenetic Basis of Kidney Disease

Katalin Susztak

University of Pennsylvania

Slides

Workshop Session 1: Online Resources and Tools

7

Overview of the ENCODE Data Portal

Eurie Hong

Stanford University

Slides | Hands-on Tutorial

8

Visualizing ENCODE Data in the UCSC Browser

Pauline Fujita

University of California, Santa Cruz

Slides & Hands-on Tutorial

Workshop Session 2: Online Resources and Tools

9

Introduction to Ensembl Regulation

Emily Perry

European Bioinformatics Institute

Slides | Hands-on Tutorial

10

Analysing Variants with the Variant Effect Predictor (VEP)

Emily Perry

European Bioinformatics Institute

Slides | Hands-on TutorialVEP_input.vcf

11

Variant Annotation Using RegulomeDB and HaploReg

Jill Moore

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Slides | Hands-on Tutorial

 

   Tuesday, June 30, 2015

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Keynote Lecture

12

Selection and Function of Signal-Dependent Enhancers

Christopher Glass

University of California, San Diego

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Scientific Session 2: Cancer, Regulation, and Mutation

13

Cancer, Genetic Predispositions, and Chromatin Architecture

Mathieu Lupien

University of Toronto

Slides

14

Mining the Genome to Understand Epigenetic Abnormalities in Cancer and Enhance Development of New Therapeutic Approaches

Stephen Baylin

Johns Hopkins University

Slides 

15

Reconstructing Cancer Stem Cells from their Chromatin Landscapes

Bradley Bernstein

Harvard Medical School

 

16

Epigenentic Control of Genetics: the Impact of Epigenome on Mutation

Shamil Sunyaev

Harvard Medical School

Slides 

17

Inference of 3D Regulatory Interactions from 2D Genomic Data

Katherine Pollard

Gladston Institutes, University of California, San Fransciso

Slides

Workshop Session 3: ENCODE Uniform Processing Pipelines 

18

ENCODE Uniform Data Processing Pipelines: Introduction

J. Seth Strattan

Stanford University

Slides |

Prepare to run web-based pipelines

19

ENCODE Uniform Data Processing Pipelines: Demo and Hands-on Tutorial

Ben Hitz

Stanford University

Hands-on Tutorial

20

ENCODE Uniform Data Processing Pipelines: ChIP-seq IDR Architecture

J. Seth Strattan

Stanford University

 

21

ENCODE Uniform Data Processing Pipelines: Demo and Hands-on Tutorial (continued)

Ben Hitz

Stanford University

 

22

ENCODE Uniform Data Processing Pipelines: Wrap-up

J. Seth Strattan

Stanford University

 

Workshop Session 4: Advanced Analysis Tools

23

ENCODE Encyclopedia and Factorbook

Michael Purcaro

University of Massachusetts

Handout

24

ENCODE Element Browser and the 3D Genome Browser

Yanli Wang

Pennsylvania State University

Hands-on Tutorial

25

Learning Chromatin States from ChIP-seq Data: ChromHMM

Luca Pinello

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Slides | Hands-on Tutorial

26

Visualizing ENCODE Data with Self Organizing Maps: SOMatic

Camden Jensen

University of California, Irvine

Hands-on Tutorial | Handout

 

   Wednesday, July 1, 2015 

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Scientific Session 3: Integrative Analysis and Mouse ENCODE
Moderator: Eric Boerwinkle

27

The Integration of ENCODE into the Study of the Complexity of Cancer Susceptibility

Stephen Chanock

National Cancer Institute

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28

Revisiting the Human and Mouse Transcriptomes

Tom Gingeras

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories

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29

Integrative Analysis of Human and Mouse Regulomes

John Stamatoyannopoulos

University of Washington

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30

Examples of how ENCODE Facilitates Biomedical Research

Richard Myers

Hudson Alpha Institute

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