Agenda & Abstracts

1. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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)

7. 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

8. 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)

9. 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

10. 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)

11. 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

12. 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)

13. 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

14. 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