Birds of a Feather (BoF) - ISMB/ECCB 2019

• The ISCB code of conduct
• Actionable ways to increase diversity in your (scientific) community
• Cancelled - Dos and Don’ts’ checklist for computational training
• Integrative queryable genomics with InterMine
• Welcome to BOSC (the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference)
• Bioinformaticians in Aging & Senescence Research
• Open Bioinformatics Foundation Board Meeting
• Cytoscape Roadmap and Feedback

Room: Boston 1/2 Ground Floor) Tuesday July 23 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Lucia Peixoto and Casey Greene, Washington State University, University of Pennsylvania

Overview

In this session we will introduce ISCB members to the recently approved ISCB code of conduct and answer questions regarding this policy as well as received feedback for future policy updates. This is a joint session organized by the Junior PI COSI and the Equity Diversity and Inclusion task-force from ISCB.

Room: Boston 1/2 (Ground Floor) Wednesday, July 24 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Malvika Sharan, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL

Overview

In this session, I would facilitate the conversation beyond the fact that diversity is required, not only to improve inclusiveness but for the growth of a community/organization. The discussion will be catalyzed by a few proven solutions developed and adopted by ISCB and other big communities. We will aim to engage conference attendees in in a discussion that will help shape the next steps for ISCB Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) TaskForce.

Room: Shanghai 1/2 (Ground Floor) Wednesday, July 24 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Sara El-Gebali, EMBL-EBI

Overview

There is a growing demand in various research fields for computational training and resources to work with open access data. Hence, trainers need to design their training materials as per the need of their audience who might be located in developed or developing countries. I would like to invite participants to create a comprehensive ‘Dos and Don’ts’ checklist when preparing for training sessions for different countries and audiences

Room: Shanghai 3/4 (Ground Floor) Wednesday, July 24 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Yo Yehudi, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge

Overview

InterMine is an open source biological data integration warehouse which allows biologists and bioinformaticians to access integrated genomic data via web interfaces and APIs. Since there are now over 30 InterMine instances "in the wild", we invite all InterMiners at ISMB to come join us for a meet-and-greet and friendly chat amongst community members.

Room: Delhi (Ground Floor) Wednesday, July 24 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Monica Munoz-Torres, BOSC

Overview

An opportunity to meet other BOSC community members and share your goals in attending BOSC and your suggestions about how we can make BOSC even better. Whether this is your first BOSC or your 20th, all are welcome!

Room: Kairo 1/2 (Ground Floor) Wednesday, July 24 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Michael R. Crusoe, ELIXIR-NL & ELIXIR Interoperability Platform

Overview

Participants will learn about using the latest release of the Common Workflow Language standards (version 1.1) to create and run data analysis workflows in portable and interoperable manner. They can also share their experiences with writing and running CWL with each other. Computer system administrators, programmers, and operators are also welcome!

Room: Osaka / Samarkand (3rd Floor) Wednesday, July 24 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Georg Fuellen, Rostock University Medical Center

Overview

Senotherapeutic approaches are among the most promising approaches towards extending lifespan and healthspan, with huge potential societal and economic impact, but a precision medicine approach is needed. Towards establishing the biomarkers from omics and other data, bioinformatics on a large scale is needed, and this BoF is designed to come together and discuss projects and future meetings. You do not have to work on aging/senescence data at the moment; everybody is welcome!

Room: Delhi (Ground Floor) Thursday, July 25 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Heather Wiencko, OBF

Overview

The OBF has a public board meeting roughly once a year, in part to vote on important business issues, and in part to publicly discuss items relevant to the OBF community. This year we're choosing to hold it during BOSC, in the hope that members of the community will be able to attend. We expect to elect a new board member during this year's meeting, and other agenda items will be published in advance of the meeting on our website: https://news.open-bio.org/

Room: Shanghai 3/4 (Ground Floor) Thursday, July 25 (12:45 pm - 1:45 pm)

Organizers:

Scooter Morris, University of California at San Francisco

Overview

The Cytoscape Consortium will be hosting an open public meeting for the community of users, app developers and scripter writers to learn about the latest features and to engage with core developers on the roadmap for the future. If you are new to Cytoscape or a long-time power user, you are welcome to join.