Given the rapid and ongoing advances in biomedicine and biometric identification as well as in information technologies, personal medical and biometric data are used more than ever for a wide variety of purposes and increasingly also across organisational and state boundaries. Thus the crucial isssue of protecting personal data becomes more complex. Consequently, the ETHICAL project has launched a vivid international expert dialogue on key issues of ethical data handling in medical and biometric applications.
A panel on tuning the spectrum for health and productivity was moderated by Naomi Miller of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Observing that LEDs offer an opportunity to customize the spectrum, she noted the proliferation of color-tunable luminaires that are being marketed as enhancing health, mood, productivity, and enjoyment and bring with them such claims as increased alertness, improved sleep, and slowing of dementia symptoms.
Michael Royer of PNNL discussed the recently released IES TM-30-15, which details new metrics and tools for evaluating the color rendering characteristics of light sources. Royer, who is chair of the IES task group that developed TM-30, explained that it provides an improved color fidelity metric, based on a much more comprehensive set of 99 color samples compared to the eight on which CRI is based. He also discussed the color gamut metric, which is introduced in TM-30 and addresses the relative color saturation provided by a light source, and he gave a vivid on-stage demonstration to show how differences in color saturation affect the appearance of objects.
At an evening reception sponsored by the Next Generation Lighting Industry Alliance, attendees had an opportunity to network and to interact with hands-on exhibits of indoor and outdoor winners from the Next Generation LuminairesTM design competition. In addition, the reception featured a number of informative posters, videos, and demonstrations that were related to the workshop discussion topics, and that were presented by Philips, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of Portland, Navigant, the University of California at Berkeley, OLEDWorks, Acuity Brands, and EMD Performance Materials Corp.
Chips Chipalkatti of Dr. Chips Consulting built on the presentations of Dillon and Dzombak to discuss the creation of a model for sustainability beyond energy savings. He pointed out that there are millions of traditional lighting fixtures installed, with substantial embodied energy vested in them, and millions of SSL units have been installed over the last decade, some with early failures and others still working but already obsolete or at least no longer state-of-the-art. Chipalkatti proposed that the best way of conserving this embodied energy is remanufacturing, which is widely used in the home appliance industry. He defined remanufacturing as not just repair or refurbishing, but a systematic and large-scale process that can be repeated across the industry, and which saves energy while upgrading the product.
Abstract for Tutorial: With the advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, there arose a need to identify candidate mutations for causality. A challenge often faced in identifying and inferring the causal SNPs from sequence data is that different methods need to be preferentially used to predict the effect of mutations for determining bona fidelity. While there are approaches focused on a wide array of highly sensitive, if not less stringent methods that the NGS has delivered in the recent past, this workshop aims to bridge the gap in using systems genomic approach taking command line scripts to Galaxy based workflows. A special focus of this workshop is on the current trends in genome analyses with special insights into NGS analysis. The sessions largely focus on whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing (WTSS) or RNA-seq pipelines, and galaxy integrated workflows, latest trends on single cell sequencing with vivid demonstration of various steps of data analysis including quality control and generation of variant calls, gene expression. An ample time will be set aside for discussing case studies on various diseased phenotypes.
Identify and highlight blocks of hands-on content in your submission: As it is all run through linux servers, The organzers are requested to provide a minimum 1 TB RAM/64 processors/50 TB SATA HDD space/Ubuntu make/ for ensuring the participants login through ssh. A few days before the workshop, we will checkmark and benchmark our tools on the server. If in any case, it is not provided, we also have remote access to our participants from our own servers, but we may have to comply with security/firewall issues, if any. Galaxy, however, will be through cloud and all users are requested to have an account at usegalaxy.org. Galaxy based analysis will make use of the Galaxy Training Network ( ) as the content is supported on usegalaxy.org. Users intending to make use of Galaxy will be instructed to have already uploaded their data prior to the date of the tutorial. A handbook would be made available to the participants
Intended audience and level: The tutorial is intended for all biologists with a flair for bioinformatics, linux command line interface. The participants who do not have an a priori experience of linux commands will be allowed to acclimatise fast with precomputed scripts made available. The Galaxy framework will ease participants who are not familiar with linux command line interface. The tutorial is open for all those semi-experienced or experienced researchers who want to analyse their own data using NGS pipelines.
Blockchain technology has received all-around attention by the industry as well as academia since it offers numerous advantages. Much beyond its initial success in the finance sector, blockchain is getting progressively embraced by sectors like healthcare, government, manufacturing, energy, entertainment, and gaming. The proposed tutorial would be beneficial and of key interest for beginners, academician and researchers who are eager to find the promising role of blockchain.
Mr. Raaj Anand Mishra is a software engineer at Dell Technologies. Raaj has experience in fullstack web development, mobile application development and blockchain-based decentralized application (DApp) development.
Dr. Sarada Prasad Gochhayat is a PostDoc fellow at Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center, Suffolk, Virginia, and an adjunct faculty at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA. He received a Ph.D. degree in communication engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, India, in 2016 and an M.Tech degree in signal processing at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India, in 2010. From 2016 to 2018, he was a PostDoc Fellow at the Department of Mathematics, University of Padua, Italy. His research interest includes security and privacy in distributed computing and network, especially in IoT, cloud computing, and blockchain.
This session connects three contemporary areas of research: data analytics, AI and Healthcare. It is relevant for attendees from more than one sector such as Engineering & Technology, Medical, and Industry; and will provide them a collective update on recent developments in this area.
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