BioC 2019: Where Software and Biology Connect

When: June 24 - 27, 2019
What: Developer Day, Main Conference, Symposium
Where: NYU and Rockefeller University, New York City, USA
Slack: Bioconductor Team (#bioc2019 channel)
Twitter: #bioc2019

Developer Day: Monday June 24

8:30 - 9:00 – Registration and breakfast – Farkas Breezeway

9:00 - 9:30 – Welcome – Farkas Auditorium

Orientation & project updates

9:30 - 10:00 – Rob Patro – Farkas Auditorium

10:00 - 10:30 – Lightning talks I – Farkas Auditorium

Any Developer Day attendee can present a lightning talk (short 5 minute presentations); be prepared to volunteer on the day of the conference. Sign up now!

10:30 - 11:00 – Break, newcomers / old-timers meet-up – Farkas Breezeway

11:00 - 12:00 – Birds-of-a-feather I / Workshops I

Track 1: Bioconductor on Containers – Nitesh Turaga – Smilow Seminar Room
Track 2: Common Workflow Language (CWL) workshop¹ – Daniela Cassol, Thomas Girke, Marko Zecevic, and Qiang Hu – SB G19
Track 3: Lazy representation of very large genomic data resources in R/Bioconductor – Qian Liu, Hervé Pagès, and Martin Morgan – Farkas Auditorium
Track 4: Cloud-scale genomic data science with Bioconductor – Vincent Carey – MSB Large

12:00 - 1:00 – Lunch – Farkas Breezeway and outside

1:00 - 2:00 – Birds-of-a-feather II / Workshops II

Track 1: Bioconductor on Containers – Nitesh Turaga – Smilow Seminar Room
Track 2: Common Workflow Language (CWL) workshop¹ – Daniela Cassol, Thomas Girke, Marko Zecevic, and Qiang Hu – SB G19
Track 3: Lazy representation of very large genomic data resources in R/Bioconductor – Qian Liu, Hervé Pagès, and Martin Morgan – Farkas Auditoriume
Track 4: motifStack: plot multiple motifs in one figure – Jianhong Ou and Lihua Julie Zhu – MSB Large

2:00 - 2:30 – Lightning talks II – Sign up now! – Farkas Auditorium

2:30 - 3:00 – Break – Farkas Breezeway

3:00 - 3:30 – Lightning talks III – Sign up now! – Farkas Auditorium

3:30 - 4:30 – Birds-of-a-feather / Breakout sessions

Extending gene set and signature representations – Farkas
Bioconductor Infrastructure for Base Modifications – Smillow Seminar Room
Annotation Harmonization – Farkas Patio

4:30 - 5:00 – Panel discussion – Farkas Auditorium

Project directions and opportunities

5:30 – Outing – stroll and foraged food in Central Park.

Meet in Grand Army Plaza at the large golden statue of General Sherman on a horse behind a lady holding a branch. It’s the very southeast corner of the park at 59th St and 5th Ave.

This workshop is available on your AMI by using port 8080 and logging in as ubuntu:bioc. ↩ ↩²