Birds of a Feather (BoF)

BoF01: Exploring and Refining Core Competencies for Bioinformatics (ISCB Curriculum Task Force)
Leader: Lonnie Welch
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Affililiation: Ohio University
Date:Sunday, July 10, 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm
Room: Northern Hemisphere A1/A2

Description:
We will review the draft guidelines of the ISCB Education Committee’s Curriculum Task Force [1]. We welcome all who are interested in bioinformatics education.

[1] Welch L, Lewitter F, Schwartz R, Brooksbank C, et al. (2014) Bioinformatics Curriculum Guidelines: Toward a Definition of Core Competencies. PLoS Comput Biol 10(3): e1003496.


BoF02: Commons Credits Pilot - Exploring New Ways to Pay for Biomedical Computing
Leader:David M. Tanenbaum
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Affililiation: MITRE
Date: 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm Sunday, July 10
Room: Northern Hemisphere A3/A4

Description
NIH is proposing instantiation of a cloud-based electronic environment (Commons) where researchers can store, share, and make computations on digital data using shareable software, workflows, metadata, and other Digital Objects. MITRE is conducting a three-year pilot for NIH to evaluate this business model, and welcomes input from the scientific public.


BoF03: Cytoscape Q&A for Users and Developers
Leader:Alex Pico, Barry Demchak and Scooter Morris
Date:Sunday, July 10, 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm
Room: Northern Hemisphere E1/E2

Description

Join us for this Birds-of-a-Feather meeting dedicated to the Cytoscape User & Developer Community. Find out about the latest developments. Learn how to use Cytoscape with your research data. Meet the developers and other users. Become a Cytoscape app developer!


BoF04: Equal Opportunity in Science - Overcoming Challenges, Increasing Diversity: Gender Balance
Leader: Bonnie Berger
Date:Sunday, July 10, 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm
Room: America's Seminar

Description

ISCB understands the importance of diversity in science and promoting diversity in every way possible. This panel is the first of a possible series to come together to discuss how we as a community, discipline, and Society can promote the advancement of women in our research community. The panel will explore career challenges and give specific advice on how to overcome obstacles, highlight the initiatives taken by ISCB to promote women, and open the discussion to the audience for questions on the topic.

We recognize that diversity is more than just gender but feel it is important to tackle the issue one step at a time. Future panels will highlight other areas of diversity, including race, age, ethnicity, etc.


BoF05: Exploring career options after a degree in computational biology and bioinformatics
Leader:Pieter Meysman
Date:Sunday, July 10, 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm
Room: Northern Hemisphere E3/E4

Description

This year at the Career Central, join the ISCB Student Council for a panel discussion with panelists from various career paths in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Come and learn where your degree can take you.


BoF06: Navigating the Industry Career Path
Leader:ISCB Industry Advisory Council
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Affililiation: ISCB
Date:Tuesday, July 12, 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm
Room: America's Seminar

Description
Bioinformatics is becoming more prevalent in fields such as biodefense, pharmaceutical, agricultural, environmental, consumer products, and biotech. The application of the field's methods and techniques continue to emerge reveling many career paths. This session will explore careers within the industry sector of the field of computational biology and bioinformatics.


BoF07: Synthetic Biology & SBOL
Leader:Kevin Clancy
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Affililiation: ThermoFisher Scientific
Date:Tuesday, July 12, 12:45 pm - 1:45 pm
Room: Northern Hemisphere A3/A4

Description
Synthetic Biology Open language was recently released as version 2.0. The standard helps us to embed both structural and functional information on designs. The session is to introduce the standard to folk interested in it and to provide an opportunity for users to give feedback on advantages, drawbacks and future requests for the standard.