Dear Meridians,

Last year, the Informatics Department accepted the challenge to improve our technical collaboration. The outcome of that challenge was our first annual informatics summit.

This year, we are building on our success and opening the informatics summit to all of Myriad.

Join us this October 30th and learn more about Informatics, our technology and the ideas that are the DNA of Great Technology.

Best,

Rick Bartschi & The Informatics Leadership Team

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Informatics Summit Schedule – October 30, 2015

KEYNOTE - PROGRAMMING THE HUMAN BRAIN

Paul A. House, M.D.

Let’s kick this year’s summit off with a big brain, Dr. House (no, not the one from TV, but the real Dr. House).

Dr. House surgically treats patients who suffer from epilepsy, movement disorders including tremor, Parkinson’s disease, and dystonia, trigeminal neuralgia and brain tumors.

His research interests include improving the “decoding” of movement information from the brain, understanding epileptic activity across several orders of scale, and designing new devices to provide communication with the brain.

9:00 – 9:40 AM - B2-397 Auditorium

VARIANTS: SIMPLE ENOUGH FOR MY DAUGHTER’S 4TH GRADE CLASS

Wendy Sorensen.

Have you attended a recent Accipio from the Variant Classification team hoping to find out about variants, but it went completely over your head? Then this is for you! We’ll discuss what variants are, the types we see and how they relate to cancer. Don’t worry this will be simple enough for my daughter’s 4th grade class.

10:00 – 10:50 AM – .B5-2012 Board Room

THE SCIENCE AND ART OF BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY

Ian Robertson

If you’ve ever had a deploy go bad because your new code broke someone else’s application, then this talk is for you. By making your changes backwards compatible, you can safely add features without worry, and deploy without downtime. We’ll discuss what backwards compatibility is, why it is both good and necessary, and how we can achieve it.

10:00 – 10:50 AM – . B5-2120 Conference Room (Bryce) & .B5-2119 Conference Room (Zion)

READING THE HUMAN GENOME IS HARD WORK!

Timothy Collinson

Computers are particularly well suited to searching through the billions of bases in any genome looking for important information that can alter treatments and save lives. However, if done incorrectly, computers can take forever to find even the simplest portions of sequence in the genome. In this discussion we will be showing practical information and examples about how to correctly encode genomic sequences for super fast, programmatic search. We’ll explore in detail how computers work, think, and read. Given the right “genomic language”, they can be our greatest, and fastest, allies in finding malicious variants.

11:00 – 11:50 AM – .B5-2012 Board Room

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE — HOW DATA DRIVES BUSINESS

Robert Carlson

We all know that making a good decision is a crucial skill at every level but how do we make a good decision when it feels like we are driving down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window?

Business Intelligence gives us the ability to view the road ahead from different perspectives so we can steer clear of obstacles before they become problems and drive towards opportunities when there’s a fork in the road.

Let’s pop the hood on Business Intelligence and take a look at the mechanics of how data drives business.

11:00 – 11:50 AM – .B5-2120 Conference Room (Bryce) & .B5-2119 Conference Room (Zion)

REGRESSION TESTING IN AN AGILE WORLD

Angela Goodbar & Mellanie Taylor

Regression testing is kind of like flossing your teeth. We all know we should do it, but in an Agile world, who really has the time? How can we effectively maintain the health of our software? As we continue down the road of Agile Software Development, it is important to remember that Regression Testing provides a reliable means to verify that code base changes and additions don’t break existing functionality. We will explore why, how, when, where and who should regression test and the challenges of fitting into Agile processes.

1:00 – 1:50 PM – .B5-2012 Board Room

INTERNATIONALIZING MYRIAD

Dwayne Gebs

My personal journey from Internationalization (i18n) and Localization (l10n) to “I thought you were a woman!” come explore with me the technical challenges, misunderstandings, mistakes, triumphs, and learnings I have had while trying to navigate the process of helping Myriad International grow into a global presence.

1:00 – 1:50 PM – .B5-2120 Conference Room (Bryce) & .B5-2119 Conference Room (Zion)

LOGGING FOR FUN, AND PROFIT

Larry Shatzer

Have you ever wondered “Should I log this?” or “What should I put in this log statement?” or ”What level should I log this at?” If so, you are not alone. Logging is often an afterthought, and usually when you are having a production issue that lacks sufficient logging. If the proper things are logged, lots of value can be unlocked from them. You can help answer a variety of questions: “Is this functionality even being used?”, “Have we seen this before, and if so, under what conditions?”. Questions that can be answered from all perspectives: development, operations and the actual business users themselves!

2:00 – 2:50 PM – .B5-2012 Board Room

ACCEPTANCE TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT

Brian Artman

Have you ever asked for an ice cream sundae with toppings and found that instead of chocolate syrup and sprinkles on top, you got bits of silicon wafers and browser cookies? Or have you ever asked that your unicorn have a mane, only to find out that it was given a lion’s mane, instead of a horse’s mane? While these may seem odd, the reality is that in software development sometimes what an application user requests versus what they actually get can get be very different. In this discussion we will review an approach to better understand a user request through Acceptance Test Driven Development. We will look at specific examples on how this can be achieved through a tool called Cucumber and discuss the pros, cons, and obstacles that can be expected. Don’t let your user’s unicorn be stuck with a lion’s mane.

2:00 – 2:50 PM – .B5-2120 Conference Room (Bryce) & .B5-2119 Conference Room (Zion)

PSYCHOLOGY, MOTIVATION AND THE SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Amber Hardy

When looking at the DNA of great technology, we are sometimes down in our bytes of code so much that we forget to take a look at the human side of things. One of the most critical pieces of great technology is the software engineer. This presentation will look at the psychology of a software engineer, particularly focusing on motivation. What motivates a software engineer, and what helps to foster creativity and innovation in their work? And, on the flip side, what demotivates them and causes them to become disinterested and burned out?

3:10 – 4:00 PM - B2-397 Auditorium

POWERPOINT ROULETTE

Informatics Leadership Team

Ever have that dream where you have to give a presentation and you’re not prepared? Live that dream along with the ILT as these brave big shots present on topics they know nothing about using PowerPoint slides they’ve never seen before!

4:00 – 4:30 PM - B2-397 Auditorium