The field of bioinformatics plays a critical role in medical breakthroughs like the COVID-19 vaccine.

Fiona Hyland , Director of R&D, DNA Sequencing Informatics at Thermo Fisher Scientific , teaches all of us about how it happened in the latest episode of Data Science Leaders.

What we talked about:
- A quick run through genetics and bioinformatics terminology
- Bioinformatics, and the genetics of cancer and the coronavirus
- The role of data science in the development of the COVID-19 vaccine

Check out these resources we mentioned during the podcast:
- COSMIC genetic database
- The 1000 Genomes Project
- gnomAD Genome Aggregation Database
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