NDWG Annual Meeting 2015
3 December 2015, 9:00-12:30 Cape Town, South Africa
Welcome and introduction
Daniela Cirillo
Part I - Use of next generation sequencing for detection of anti-microbial resistance
Scaling up sequencing in order to determine sequence diversity worldwide and for the identification of genetic variants that confer resistance to all old and new anti-mycobacterial drugs
Derrick Crook, University of Oxford
The ReSeqTB initiative and recent progress in the development of the data sharing platform
Angela Starks, CDC
User-friendly platforms for large data analysis
Stefan Niemann, Borstel Research Center
Related Papers
- Hugh Salamon et al., Integration of Published Information Into a Resistance-Associated Mutation Database for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, IJID, 2015 (PDF)
- Angela M. Starks et al., Collaborative Effort for a Centralized Worldwide Tuberculosis Relational Sequencing Data Platform, CID, 2015 (PDF)
- ReSeqTB overview (PDF)
- Timothy M Walker et al., Whole-genome sequencing for prediction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility and resistance: a retrospective cohort study, Lancet Infect Dis, 2015
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