@article{63c9b59c1fa64cc78fa3a0d41030ad0a,
title = "VarI-SIG 2014--From SNPs to variants: interpreting different types of genetic variants",
author = "Yana Bromberg and Emidio Capriotti",
note = "Funding Information: We are grateful to Rachel Karchin (John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) for the organizing and chairing of the MD Corner and roundtable discussion. We thank Frank Schacherer and BIOBASE International for their financial support. We acknowledge Isobel Peters and the editorial staff of BioMed Central for their help with releasing this issue. We would like to extend special thanks for all help to the ISMB organizational committee and specifically Steven Leard and Jeremy Hennig. We also thank the invited speakers: George Church (Harvard University, Cambrige, MA), Garry Cutting (John Hopkins, Baltimore, MD), Jan Korbel (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany), James Potash (University of Iowa, Iowa City IA) and Benjamin Raphael (Brown University, Providence, RI). Finally, we are very grateful for the patience and help of our colleagues around the world who reviewed the submitted manuscripts. The VarI-SIG 2014 special issue would has not be possible without them: Francesc Calafell (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain), Hannah Carter (University of California, San Diego, CA), Xavier de la Cruz (Vall d{\textquoteright}Hebron Institute of Research, Barcelona, Spain), Paul Geeleher (University of Chicago, Chicago, IL) Christian Gilissen (Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherland), Alexandra Graf (FH Campus, Wien, Austria), Tae Hyun Hwang (Southwestern University, Dallas, TX), Jose MG Izarzugaza (DTU, Lyngby, Denmark), Martin Kircher (University of Washington, Seattle, WA), Biao Li (Gilead Sciences Inc., Foster City, CA), Yves Lussier (Arizona State University, Tucson, AZ), Ugur Sezerman (Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey), Hashem Shihab (University of Bristol, Bristol, UK), Nick Tatonetti (Columbia University, New York, NY), Jacob Tennessen (Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR), Ali Torkanami (Scripps Institute, San Diego, CA), Silvio Tosatto (University of Padova, Padova, Italy), Verena Zuber (University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway) and 4 anonymous reviewers who evaluated the papers where the editors of this special issue are co-authors. This article has been published as part of BMC Genomics Volume 16 Supplement 8, 2015: VarI-SIG 2014: Identification and annotation of genetic variants in the context of structure, function and disease. The full contents of the supplement are available online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/ bmcgenomics/supplements/16/S8.",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1186/1471-2164-16-S8-I1",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "16",
pages = "I1",
journal = "BMC genomics",
issn = "1471-2164",
publisher = "BioMed Central",
}