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2. Analysing human genomes with Dr. Hasindu Gamaarachchi

2. Analysing human genomes with Dr. Hasindu Gamaarachchi

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Did you know that a human genome contains three billion bases and extracting a single sample will get you one terabyte of data? Join us in conversation with Dr. Hasindu Gamaarachchi, a Genomics Computing Research Scientist from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, to learn how it is possible to analyse this massive amount of data with the help of high-performance computing.


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Dr. Hasindu Gamaarachchi

Website: https://www.garvan.org.au/about-us/people/hasgam

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hasindu2008


Oxford Nanopore Technology’s (ONT): https://nanoporetech.com/


Learn more about NCI:

Website: https://nci.org.au/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NCInews

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/national-computational-infrastructure/


Thanks to James Beattie (ANU) for the astrophysics visualisation used in the artwork, and to Andy Maher for the show production (andymaher.com).

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