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Helga Thorvaldsdottir, Mary Goldman, and Alex Krasnitz

Integrative Genomics Viewer

UCSC Xena

Single Cell Genome Viewer (Profiling and visualization of tumor genomes on a single-cell level) - Sparse genomic profiling of multiple individual cancer cells is a tool of choice for characterization of genetic heterogeneity and clonal structure in tumors. I will outline a computational and visualization workflow we have developed for this purpose and provide evidence for diagnostic utility of single-cell genomics in prostate cancer

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Helga Thorvaldsdottir is a Software Engineering Manager at the Broad Institute. Helga holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she focused on interactive 3D computer graphics. After a decade developing computer graphics software for hardware companies in Silicon Valley, Helga turned her attention to software development for biomedical researchers, first at Iceland Genomics Corporation and then the Broad Institute. Helga has been a key member of the team that develops the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) since before its initial release in 2008.

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