Genomic Know-How® Webinar Series: Sources of Error and the Role of Replicates in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)

Kim Robasky, PhD, Associate Director, Bioinformatics, EA

Dr. Robasky received her Ph.D. in bioinformatics from Boston University, with a research appointment in the Church Lab at the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School in 2013. Kimberly’s publications include analyses of whole genome and targeted sequencing data via phasing, haplotyping and variant interpretation with a focus on characterizing error to improve accuracy and clinical understanding. Kimberly is currently Associate Director of Bioinformatics for Expression Analysis, a Quintiles Company, in Durham, NC, where she has brought to bear her previous experience as a financial consulting software architect to institute and support best practices for software engineering and genomic data annotation. Kimberly’s current focus is on surveying existing datasets, including The Cancer Genome Atlas data, for clinically relevant features and cancer drug targets.