BOSC 2009 Schedule

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Schedule

Day 1	Saturday	June 27
9:00-9:15am	Kam Dahlquist	[Welcome]
9:15-10:15	Alan Ruttenberg	[Keynote] Semantic Web Technologies
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-11:05	Jean-Stéphane Varré	[Multicore & GPGPU Computing] Biomanycores, a repository of interoperable open-source code for many-cores bioinformatics
11:25-11:40	Josh Buckner	[Multicore & GPGPU Computing] Enabling GPU Computing in the R Statistical Environment
11:25-11:40	Mikhail Fursov	[Multicore & GPGPU Computing] UGENE – A practical approach for complex computational analysis in molecular biology
11:40-11:48	Oswaldo Trelles	[Multicore & GPGPU Computing Lightning Talk] Qnorm: A library of parallel methods for gene-expression Q-normalization
11:48-12:08pm	Hajo N. Krabbenhöft	[Computational Grids] Taverna workflows across Grids, web services and the command line
12:08-12:23	Ann-Kristin Grimm	[Computational Grids] Grid-based expression QTL analysis
12:23-12:31	Joel Hedlund	[Computational Grids Lightning Talk] The Nordic BioGrid project -- Bioinformatics for the grid
12:31-2:00	Lunch
2:00-2:20	Allan Kuchinsky	[Visualization] Cytoscape Springs Forward: Re-architecture for Version 3.0
2:20-2:33	Frederik Decouttere	[Visualization] Bioinformatics simplified with seqpad
2:33-2:46	Bernat Gel	[Visualization] DASGenExp: an interactive web-based DAS client with client-side rendering
2:46-2:59	Kazuharu Arakawa	[OS Software] Web Service Interface for G-language Genome Analysis Environment
2:59-3:12	Sylvain Brohée	[OS Software] Best of both worlds : combining the user-friendliness of Wikis and the rigor of biological databases
3:12-3:30	Bartek Wilczynski	[Regulatory Genomics] BNfinder: free software for effective Bayesian Network inference
3:30-4:00	Coffee Break
4:00-4:20	Morris Swertz	[Data & Analysis Management] MOLGENIS by example: generating an extensible platform for genotype and phenotype experiments
4:20-4:40	Robert Murphy	[Data & Analysis Management] PSLID, the Protein Subcellular Location Image Database: Subcellular location assignments, annotated image collections, image analysis tools, and generative models of protein distributions
4:40-5:00	Mark Welsh	[Data & Analysis Management] BioHDF: Open binary file formats for large-scale data management – Project Update
5:00-5:15	Brad Chapman	[Data & Analysis Management] Lowering barriers to publishing biological data on the web
5:15-5:30	Kam Dahlquist	[Data & Analysis Management] XMLPipeDB: A Reusable, Open Source Tool Chain for Building Relational Databases from XML Sources
5:30-6:00		Lightning Talks and Birds of a Feather
7:00		O|B|F Board Meeting and No-host Dinner (location TBA)
Day 2	Sunday	June 28
9:00-9:15am	Kam Dahlquist	[Announcements]
9:15-10:15	Robert Hanmer	[Keynote] Software Patterns for Reusable Design
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-11:00	Peter Rice	[Bio* Update] EMBOSS: European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite
11:00-11:15	Peter Cock	[Bio* Update] Biopython Project Update
11:15-11:30	Andreas Prlic	[Bio* Update] BioJava 2009: an Open-Source Framework for Bioinformatics
11:30-11:45	Jim Procter	[Bio* Update] Application of VAMSAS enabled tools for the investigation of protein evolution
11:45-12:00pm	Martin Senger	[Bio* Update] Soaplab: Open Source Web Services Framework for Bioinformatics Programs
12:00-12:20	Pjotr Prins	[Bio* Update] BioLib: Sharing high performance code between BioPerl, BioPython, BioRuby, R/Bioconductor and BioJAVA
12:20-12:28	Steffen Möller	[OS Software Lightning Talk] Debian adopts and disseminates Bioinformatics Open Source Software
12:30-2:00	Lunch
2:00-2:20	Quinn Snell	[OS Software] PSODA: Open Source Phylogenetic Search and DNA Analysis
2:20-2:40	Finn Drablos	[Regulatory Genomics] Computational discovery of composite motifs in DNA
2:40-2:55	François Fauteux	[Regulatory Genomics] SEEDER: PERL MODULES FOR CIS-REGULATORY MOTIF DISCOVERY
2:55-3:10	Matias Piipari	[Regulatory Genomics] Large-scale gene regulatory motif discovery and categorisation with NestedMICA
3:10-3:30	Sophie Schbath	[Regulatory Genomics] R'MES
3:30-4:00	Coffee Break
4:00-4:15	Lonnie Welch	[Regulatory Genomics] Open Source Implementation of Batch-Extraction for Coding and Non-coding Sequences/An Open Source Framework for Bioinformatics Word Enumeration and Scoring
4:15-4:50	Robert Hanmer (moderator), Lonnie Welch, Aleksi Kallio, other panelists TBA	[Panel Discussion] On the Applicability of Design Patterns for the Bioinformatics Open Source Community
4:50-5:30	Lightning Talks and Birds of a Feather