Sunday, July 13
BOF: Open Source Communities with Impact, Leader: Manuel Corpas (Room 302)
BOF: BioFabric BoF: (nodes == lines) -> !hairballs, Leader: Bill Longabaugh (Room 313)
Tuesday, July 15
BoF: Bioinformatics Curriculum Guidelines, Leader: Lonnie Welch (Room 302)
BoF: Career Development for Women in Science, Leader: Lucia Peixoto (Room 304)
BoF: Critical Assessment of Function Annotation followup, Leader: Iddo Friedberg (Room 306)
Topic: Open Source Communities with Impact
Leader: Manuel Corpas
Affililiation: The Genome Analysis Centre
Date: Sunday July 13, 2014 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Room: 302
Description:
Many bioinformatics initiatives rely heavily on distributed communities of scientists and developers. What makes these communities successful? How can we harness their energy to develop scientific impact? While a compelling vision for the project is critical, effective open source communities must be able to cope with the diverse needs and demands of its members. Understanding the dynamics of remote collaborative interactions between community members is key to its success. In this BoF we will dissect the social engineering factors influencing the impact of biologically-inspired open source communities. Specifically we will focus on (i) the benefits/motivations for bioinformaticians participating in open collaborative projects and (ii) the features of higher and lower-impact communities in our field.
Topic: BioFabric BoF: (nodes == lines) -> !hairballs
Leader:Bill Longabaugh
Affililiation: Institute for Systems Biology
Date: Sunday July 13, 2014 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Room: 313
Description:
BioFabric (www.BioFabric.org) is a new network visualization tool that represents nodes as lines instead of as points, which creates highly organized, unambiguous, and scalable node-link diagrams. This BoF will provide users, potential users, and just the nodes-as-lines-curious to explore and discuss how BioFabric can help you to visualize your network data.
Topic: Bioinformatics Curriculum Guidelines (An Open Forum of the Curriculum Task Force of the ISCB Education Committee)
Leader: Lonnie Welch
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Affililiation: Ohio University
Date: Tuesday July 15, 2014 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Room: 302
Description:
The Curriculum Task Force of the ISCB Education Committee will hold an open forum to discuss its recent report “Bioinformatics Curriculum Guidelines: Toward a Definition of Core Competencies” (see PLOS Computational Biology, March 2014). The discussion will focus on implementation and refinement of the guidelines.
Topic: Career Development for Women in Science
Leader: Lucia Peixoto
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Affililiation: University of Pennsylvania
Date: Tuesday July 15, 2014 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Room: 304
Description:
For many decades, an increasing number of women have obtained science doctoral degrees, however, women, continue to be significantly underrepresented in almost all leadership positions. While the degree of underrepresentation varies among disciplines, women's advancement to senior professorial ranks and leadership roles is an issue in all fields. Our computational biology research community is young and growing, and thus has an opportunity to set new standards in unbiased leadership, promotion, and recognition of accomplishments. Toward this, we will discuss the current state of implicit bias in hiring and promotion practices in science and outline strategies to increase career success, job satisfaction and work-life balance regardless of gender.
- Understanding Implicit Bias. Terry Gaasterland, UCSD
- Increasing your chances of success:
* What makes a job candidate stand out. Perspectives from young group leaders and the people who hire them.
Yana Bromberg, Rutgers.
* What is an "Individualized Career Development Plan" (IDP) and why it is important to have one. Michael Robinson, CHOP.
*Success factors beyond science: Jill Mesirov (BROAD), Fran Lewitter (MIT), Pankaj Agarwal (GSK)
- Open discussion
Topic: Critical Assessment of Function Annotation followup
Leader: Iddo Friedberg
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Affililiation: The Genome Analysis Centre
Date: Tuesday July 15, 2014 12:45 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Room: 306
Description:
Fewer than 2% of protein sequences are annotated manually, and fewer than 1% by experiments. With the advent of the $1000 genome, the analysis typically costs over $50,000. The Critical Assessment of Function Annotation (CAFA) is an ongoing effort to assess and improve computational function prediction methods. CAFA 2014 was highly successful, engaging 50 groups from 20 countries. We are looking to engage more people in the next CAFA as predictors, assessors and judges. This is a great opportunity to join a large international effort and learn about cutting-edge technologies which are used in gene and genome annotation. Funding opportunities will also be discussed, with a program officer from the National Science Foundation.
Institute for Systems Biology