BOSC 2014 Schedule

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Pre-BOSC Codefest: July 9-10, 2014

See Codefest 2014 for details.

BOSC

BOSC Day 1: Friday 11 July 2014

Time	Topic	Speaker, Moderator, or notes
7:30-9:00	Registration	Early arrival is recommended as there are usually long lines
9:00-9:15	Introduction and welcome	Nomi Harris and/or Peter Cock (Chairs, BOSC 2014)
9:15-10:15	Keynote: A History of Bioinformatics (in the year 2039)	C. Titus Brown
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-12:30	Session: Genome-scale Data and Beyond	Chair: Chris Fields
10:45	[Genome-Scale] ADAM: Fast, Scalable Genomic Analysis	Frank Austin Nothaft
11:05	[Genome-Scale] A framework for benchmarking RNA-seq pipelines	Rory Kirchner
11:25	[Genome-Scale] New Frontiers of Genome Assembly with SPAdes 3.1	Andrey Prjibelski
11:45	[Genome-Scale] SigSeeker: An Ensemble for Analysis of Epigenetic Data	Jens Lichtenberg
12:05	[Genome-Scale] Pathview: an R/Bioconductor package for pathway-based data integration and visualization	Weijun Luo
12:30-1:30	Lunch	(and poster session)
1:00-2:00	Poster Session and Birds of a Feather	(overlapping with lunch)
14:00-15:30	Session: Visualization	Chair: Rob Davey
14:00	[Visualization] WormGUIDES: an Interactive Informatic Developmental Atlas at Subcellular Resolution	Anthony Santella
14:18	[Visualization] BioJS: an open source standard for biological visualisation	Manuel Corpas
14:36	[Visualization] Biodalliance: a fast, extensible genome browser	Thomas Down
14:54	[Visualization] TGAC Browser: visualisation solutions for big data in the genomic era	Anil S. Thanki
15:12	[Visualization] Explore, analyze, and share genomic data using Integrated Genome Browser	Ann Loraine
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-17:00	Session: Bioinformatics Open Source Project Updates	Chair: Peter Cock
16:00	[Updates] BioMart 0.9 – introducing tools for data analysis and visualisation	Arek Kasprzyk
16:12	[Updates] Biocaml: The OCaml Bioinformatics Library	Ashish Agarwal
16:24	[Updates] BioRuby and distributed development	Raoul Bonnal (?)
16:36	[Updates] Biopython Project Update	Wibowo Arindrarto
16:48	[Updates] Shared bioinformatics database within Unipro UGENE	Ivan Protsyuk
17:00-18:00	Lightning Talks followed by BOFs	Suggest a BOF topic here!
19:00	Pay-your-own-way BOSC dinner

BOSC Day 2: Saturday 12 July 2014

Time	Topic	Speaker or Moderator
8:45 - 8:50	Announcements	Peter Cock and/or Nomi Harris (Chairs, BOSC 2014)
8:50 - 9:00	Codefest 2014 Report	Brad Chapman
9:00 - 9:15	Open Bioinformatics Foundation (OBF) update	Hilmar Lapp (President, Open Bioinformatics Foundation)
9:15 - 10:15	Keynote: Biomedical Research as an Open Digital Enterprise	Philip Bourne
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-12:30	Session: Open Science and Reproducible Research	Chair: Hilmar Lapp
12:30-13:30	Lunch	(and posters)
12:30-13:30	Poster Session	(Overlapping with Lunch)
13:30-15:30	Session: Software Interoperability	Chair: Raoul Bonnal
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-16:15	Session: Software Interoperability (continued)	Chair: Raoul Bonnal
16:15-17:05	Panel: Reproducibility: Rewards and Challenges	Moderator: Brad Chapman; Panelists: Phil Bourne, Titus Brown, Varsha Khodiyar, Kay Thaney
17:05-17:15	Presentation of Student Travel Awards	Peter Cock and/or Nomi Harris (Chairs, BOSC 2014)
17:20-18:00	BOFs	Suggest a BOF topic here!

Note the ISMB reception starts at 17:30...

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Posters

Shared links to presented posters will be posted here:

Title	Presenter
...	A.N. Other et al.

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