BIODATA STAGE

• ELIXIR is supporting Europe to deploy infrastructure to facilitate the discoverability, access, sharing and analysis of genomics data linked to other data types, at scale (4-5M participants)
• The talk will also discuss the impact of infrastructure in translating genomics research into medicine

Join industry leaders from Genomics England, UK Biobank, and the Francis Crick Institute for an engaging discussion on how cloud technology is driving innovation in the UK research sector.

In this session, they will discuss:

• Progress towards UK's goal of becoming a science and technology superpower by 2030
• The role of cloud computing in supporting the UK's scientific ambitions
• Advancements in cloud technology and its impact on scientific research and collaboration
• Developments in diversity and equity within the scientific sector

• This talk will present the latest updates from The All of Us Research Programme. This will include how the platform is effectively storing and allowing access to multi-modal data from electronic health records, surveys, physical measures, wearables data, and whole genome sequences.
• We'll cover the main aims and priorities of The All of Us Programme to date, and how it can inform precision medicine approaches. Finally, we'll cover the main challenges that are currently faced and future directions.

• Accelerating Genomics with AI Infrastructure: Explore how cutting-edge GPU-powered solutions from Nebius AI enable faster, more efficient workflows for genomics and biodata research, empowering breakthroughs in drug discovery and personalised medicine.
• Tailored Solutions for Life Sciences: Learn how Nebius AI’s scalable, cost-effective platform addresses the unique computational demands of molecular modelling, iterative AI workflows, and synthetic biology applications.
• Collaborative Innovation in Genomics: Discover opportunities to partner with Nebius AI to overcome computational bottlenecks, navigate the complexities of AI-driven research, and unlock new possibilities in life sciences.
• Real-World Impact: Hear about real-world use cases showcasing how advanced AI infrastructure drives innovation in drug discovery, genome editing, and clinical research.
  

• Recent advancements in GPU technology and LLMs revolutionized drug discovery and paved the way for the development of advanced in-silico techniques for analyzing biological sequences. These computational techniques have enabled researchers to virtually generate and evaluate a broad spectrum of hypotheses, thereby reducing the need for extensive wet-lab experiments in the early stages.
• In this talk, we will explore how Quantiphi leverages a combination of its proprietary technology, GPU-accelerated models, and NVIDIA frameworks, along with optimised infrastructure, to accelerate the drug discovery pipeline. We will focus on Quantiphi's modified protein structure prediction pipeline, which samples multiple protein conformations and integrates deep learning with physics-based simulations to characterise ligand-protein binding affinities effectively.
  

• Overview of XetaBase: a centralised genomic data analysis platform across research, clinical and multi-omics applications.
• XetaBase’s advanced variant database and position as a gold-standard solution for tertiary analysis.
• Launching a new application for data federation and its impacts on enhancing collaboration in research and clinical genomics.
• Announcing the launch of XetaBase 3.0, which includes custom tool and workflow support, integrated notebooks, clinical variant database and our new SaaS deployment offering.
  

• AI is advancing at an electrifying rate and transforming entire industries. But healthcare has traditionally been a digital laggard, can things be different this time? Yes - but only if we can solve the data silo problem and we think we know how...

• Designing the national digital architecture to support the Genomics Partnership Wales
• Addressing the complexity of EHR data
• Overview of current projects and future directions

• Latest technologies and innovations for managing large-scale and multi-modal datasets in genomics, following FAIR principles
• Real-life healthcare and life sciences projects, including lessons learned and best practices
• Live demos of data fabric, data sharing, and data orchestration
  

• Reusing data in biomedical research – a paradigm shift
• Types of OMICs data Sharing data from cancer genome projects
• Secure sharing of OMIC data derived from patients
• Building federated data-sharing infrastructure for the secure sharing of sensitive data

• Speed Networking: Fun and useful sessions where you’ll rapidly meet other Festival attendees to immediately expand your network
• Food Options: Grab a sandwich at The Tree of Life Cafe or head on over to the Food Village for a range of hot food options, including Indian, Jamaican and Lebanese food
• Exhibition Floor: Wander around the vibrant exhibition floor to see the latest technologies and services on offer
• Talkaoke: The Flying Saucer of Chat, a fun and interactive pop-up show that offers you the opportunity to sit down with others and discuss any topic you like

With the goal for many to be to share omics data internationally, what’s preventing the widespread sharing of data?

This panel will discuss:

• The challenges of international data sharing, including infrastructure, data quality and security
• Legal and ethical considerations
• Lessons learned