Bioinformatics and the Unprecedented COVID-19 Vaccine Race

The field of bioinformatics plays a critical role in medical breakthroughs like the COVID-19 vaccine.

Fiona Hyland, Director of R&D, DNA Sequencing Informatics at Thermo Fisher Scientific, teaches all of us about how it happened in the latest episode of Data Science Leaders.

What we talked about:

• A quick run through of genetics and bioinformatics terminology
• Bioinformatics, and the genetics of cancer and the coronavirus
• The role of data science in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine

Check out these resources we mentioned during the podcast:

• COSMIC genetic database
• The 1000 Genomes Project
• gnomAD Genome Aggregation Database