Breakout session:

Metagenomics for business ​​(14:00-15:00) (Azie)

Session organised by the Bioinformatics Industry Users Platform. 

Organizers: Antoine Janssen (Keygene), Emiel Ver Loren van Themaat (DSM), Walter Pirovano (Baseclear)

This year the Bioinformatics Industrial Users Platform (BIUP) session will focus on the growing interest of commercial parties in metagenomics studies.

Two speakers will share interesting developments in their field of application:

• Jos Boekhorst (NIZO food research, The Netherlands): Applied shotgun metagenomics in food and health
   
• Eran Segal (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel): Towards actionable insights from metagenomic data