Overview
Date:
19th March 2021, Friday
Time:
07:30 am - 08:30 am (Delhi)
10:00 am - 11:00 am (Singapore)
11:00 am - 12:00 pm (Seoul / Tokyo)
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm (Melbourne)
03:00 pm - 04:00 pm (Auckland)
We understand that our webinar timing may not suit your busy schedule. Please feel free to register to get the on-demand recording link once it is ready.
Illumina Webinar
Learn about the latest DRAGEN features and improvements with the recent v3.8 release from Principal Engineer, Shyamal Mehtalia. Major highlights include the introduction of DRAGEN ORA compression technology which enables rapid, lossless compression of FASTQ files, translating in up to 80% savings on storage costs.
We also expand our targeted callers and biomarker capabilities with the introduction of TMB and MSI as well as HLA typing. Additional features and improvements include generalized hardware accelerated trimming, expansion of the graph genome capabilities, and speed and accuracy improvements. BaseSpace users will be excited to see the introduction of DRAGEN DNA Amplicon and DRAGEN Single Cell RNA Apps.
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Shyamal Mehtalia |
Shyamal Mehtalia is a Principal Engineer at Illumina Inc. He is currently part of the Product Development group focusing on Customer Collaboration and Innovation with a focus on the DRAGEN Bio-IT Platform. He drives key technical customer engagements for enabling Illumina’s secondary analysis solutions and provides support to Sales and Commercial organizations. He joined Illumina in May 2018 as part of the Edico Genome Corp. acquisition which invented the DRAGEN platform where he served as Director of Operations for 3 years. Previously, he worked as a leader in firmware development in the mobile wireless space. Shyamal Mehtalia holds a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University. |