Posts tagged: Conferences

Genetics and open access publishing meets Chilli Crab

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Singapore – a wonderful city of diverse cultures and culinary affair, is not just about the infamous chilli crab or signature cocktail, Singapore Sling, but from the 13-19 April the vibrant country plays host to one of the largest meetings in genetics and genomics. The 2013 Human Genome Meeting/International Congress of Genetics (HGM/ICG) meeting is the first of its kind in Asia – bringing together a genetics congress that has been held every five years since 1899 with the young upstart genomics experts from HUGO (the Human Genome Organisation), the 2013 meeting brought together over 1000 scientists from around the world at the Marina Bay Sands Convention Centre (a favourite …

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Call for papers for a special GCC2013 Galaxy series

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The 2013 Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2013) and GigaScience are today announcing a call for papers for a special thematic focused series on studies utilizing large-scale datasets and workflows. Galaxy is an open, web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research allowing their growing community of users to reproduce and share analyses. GigaScience, with its aims to increase reproducibility and transparency of research has just launched its own Giga-Galaxy server, enabling the hosting and implementation of Galaxy-based workflows and methods. To see examples of how this works, see the slides from our flashtalk at the …

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GigaScience special session at ISCB-Asia on Workflows & Cloud for Reproducible Bioinformatics

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GigaScience organised a session last week at the ISCB-Asia/SCCG conference in Shenzhen on “Workflows and Cloud for Reproducible Bioinformatics”.

ECCB 2012: Bioinformatics with a Swiss Flavour

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In the midst of a busy few weeks of European meetings, GigaScience is currently in Basel, where ECCB 2012 (the European Conference of Computational Biology) has just ended. Usually overshadowed by its bigger sibling: the ISMB (particularly when both meetings are in Europe and co-hosted), this was the first time that I had attended the stand-alone meeting and it more than justified being a stand-alone event. A lot of this had to do with the ruthlessly efficient organisation from the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Despite the meeting having double the number of expected participants (nearly 1,200), the conference organisers took it it in their …

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1, 2, 3, 4 Get with the Wiki!

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Type any scientific term into any search engine and its pretty much guaranteed that a Wikipedia article will be the first hit. Many in the scientific community have been sceptical that a free website maintained by untrained volunteers should dominate the global provision of knowledge, but a growing number of researchers are deciding that it is better to embrace a platform that enables the curation burden to be distributed and potentially ‘crowdsourced’ by the global “hive mind”. At last weeks ISMB meeting in Long Beach, the biggest gathering of the bioinformatics community organized by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), this growing acceptance of wikis was …

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The FENS Forum: A Good Time to Be in Spain

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This year is the “Year of Neuroscience” in Spain. As a part of this educational movement and celebration of the most recent flowering of Spanish neuroscience, Barcelona hosted the FENS Forum of Neuroscience. Drawing what the Chair of the Host Committee, Mara Dierssen, described as the largest number of attendees ever, the 8th FENS meeting fostered cross-disciplinary discussion and showcased some of the field’s best science.

Cori Bargmann gave a fascinating plenary lecture on behavior in C. elegans. Most of the talk focused on the nematode’s reproductive (all of her videos were G-rated, though some of her images were for scientific audiences only) and social foraging …

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Searching for the (Open) Source at Long Beach

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As a project with the aim of revolutionizing data dissemination and use, on top of promoting open-access and open-data, open-source is a key part of the open-science equation, and this week GigaScience has been at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC2012 – program here) in Long Beach. Sponsored by the Open Bioinformatics Foundation (O|B|F), BOSC is a satellite of the ISMB – the annual gathering of the worlds computational biology community, and the many pre-conference SIGs (Special Interest Group Sessions) are a good warm-up for …

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Lessons From the “Data Publication Spring”: DataCite Summer 2012

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Readers of this blog will be well versed on our and others work using DataCite Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) to cite data, and this months DataCite summer meeting in Copenhagen was a good opportunity to take stock of the many recent developments in the area of data publication, with the last six months being particularly busy with the number of new data platforms and data journals announced. On top of the many new data-journals already highlighted in our blog (see this posting), Wiley-Blackwell has just entered the data-publication arena with Read more

The (genomics) view from the 57th floor

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In a busy summer for meetings, this month we attended and presented at Bio-IT World Asia conference in Singapore. In this era of more globalized biology, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the usually Boston based conference series, with Bio-IT World substituted their usual New England lobster for Chili Crab and heading east. The meetings proximity to the Singapore Biopolis (of which we paid a visit), and its location at the 57 story Marina Bay Sands resort (with its rooftop worlds highest infinity pool), were a winning combination in getting an impressive mix of scientists …

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A conference, neuroimaging, and the wealth of computational neuroscience

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I was fortunate in being able to attend 18th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM2012). It was a nice turnout, especially considering the long distances many of the attendees traveled to attend the conference in Beijing. Very exciting was the record number of Chinese delegates, a trend the organization would like to see continue in the future.

For me, this year was year of the resting state brain. There was an Educational Course and an Oral session devoted to resting state networks, a strong showing of posters, and a number of good talks on this topic in other sessions and workshops that were not strictly “resting state” series. The energy and ideas floating around the OHBM conference last week suggest …

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