Professor of Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics and Head of Public Health Genomics Programme Cardiff University and Public Health Wales NHS Trust Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
Description: Bioinformatics approaches are increasingly becoming an essential part of the practice of molecular pathology. When dealing with genomic and other similar data, bioinformatics pipelines form the core step in data into diagnostic results for action. To ensure the quality and robustness of services that include bioinformatics, it is vital to ensure bioinformatics processes are managed as part of an end-to-end service. This session aims to explore the development of bioinformatic pipelines and processes under the ISO 15189 Medical Laboratory framework in our laboratory, which serves the 3.25 million people of the country of Wales.
Learning Objectives: - Gain an understanding of how we have developed a set of end-to-end ISO 15189 accredited clinical pathogen genomics services. - Appreciate the key challenges that we have had to overcome in planning and delivering bioinformatics in a ISO 15189 or similar accredited environment - Gain an understanding of the strategies we have used to overcome key challenges - Be better placed to plan to integrate bioinformatics into their own molecular pathology services.
