Bioinformatics and the Unprecedented COVID-19 Vaccine Race (Fiona Hyland, Director of R&D, Informatics, Thermo Fisher Scientific)

<p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">The field of bioinformatics plays a critical role in medical breakthroughs like the COVID-19 vaccine.</span><br></p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/fhyland/" target="_self"><span style="color: rgb(17,85,204);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;"><ins>Fiona Hyland</ins></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">, Director of R&amp;D, DNA Sequencing Informatics at </span><a href="https://www.thermofisher.com/" target="_self"><span style="color: rgb(17,85,204);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;"><ins>Thermo Fisher Scientific</ins></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">,</span> <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">teaches all of us about how it happened in the latest episode of Data Science Leaders.</span><br></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">What we talked about:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">A quick run through genetics and bioinformatics terminology</span></li> <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">Bioinformatics, and the genetics of cancer and the coronavirus</span></li> <li><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">The role of data science in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine</span><br></li> </ul> <p><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);background-color: transparent;font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial;">Check out these resources we mentioned during the podcast:</span></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic" target="_self"><span style="color: rgb(17,85,204);back