BOSC 2014 Schedule

Pre-BOSC Codefest: July 9-10, 2014

See Codefest 2014 for details.

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] Galaxy as an Extensible Job Execution Platform	John Chilton
12:30-13:30	Lunch	(and poster session)
13:00-14:00	Poster Session and Birds of a Feather (overlapping with lunch)	Suggest a BOF topic here!
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	Luca Pandini
16:12	[Updates] Biocaml: The OCaml Bioinformatics Library	Ashish Agarwal
16:24	[Updates] BioRuby and distributed development	Pjotr Prins
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: Software Interoperability	Chair: Raoul Bonnal
10:45	[Interoperability] Pathview: an R/Bioconductor package for pathway-based data integration and visualization	Weijun Luo
11:05	[Interoperability] Use of semantically annotated resources in the Mobyle2 Web Framework	Hervé Ménager
11:25	[Interoperability] Towards ubiquitous OWL computing: Simplifying programmatic authoring of and querying with OWL axioms	Hilmar Lapp
11:45	[Interoperability] The coming of the age of the platform for bioinformatics? (And how to keep it open-source)	Konstantinos Krampis
12:05	[Interoperability] Small tools for Bioinformatics	Pjotr Prins
12:30-13:30	Lunch	(and poster session)
13:00-14:00	Poster Session and Birds of a Feather (overlapping with lunch)	Suggest a BOF topic here!
14:00-15:30	Session: Open Science and Reproducible Research	Chair: Hilmar Lapp
14:00	[Open Science] SEEK for Science: A Data Management Platform which Supports Open and Reproducible Science	Stuart Owen
14:18	[Open Science] Arvados: Achieving Computational Reproducibility and Data Provenance in Large-Scale Genomic Analyses	Brett Smith
14:36	[Open Science] Integrating Taverna Player into Scratchpads	Robert Haines
14:54	[Open Science] Enhancing the Galaxy Experience through Community Involvement	Daniel Blankenberg
15:12	[Open Science] Supporting dynamic community developed biological pipelines	Brad Chapman
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-16:15	Session: Open Science and Reproducible Research (cont.)	Chair: Hilmar Lapp
16:00	[Open Science] Open as a strategy for durability, reproducibility and scalability	Jonathan Rees
16:15-17:05	Panel: Reproducibility: Rewards and Challenges	Moderator: Brad Chapman; Panelists: Phil Bourne, Titus Brown, Varsha Khodiyar, Kay Thaney
17:05-17:10	Presentation of Student Travel Awards	Nomi Harris (Co-Chair, BOSC 2014)
17:10-18:00	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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