VISUALIZING BIOLOGICAL DATA VIZBI

This year, the Autodesk Art and Biology Award went to Jasmin Imran Alsous for Picasso’s Bulls and Drosophila’s Eggs. This submission highlights a connection between one of Picasso’s artworks and modern techniques used for processing biological image data. The Autodesk award is for the most popular VIZBI Art and Biology submission, and the winner receives a three-year subscription to Autodesk Maya. Well done Jasmin!

Benedetta Frida Baldi’s talk on ‘Novel approaches to modelling protein-protein interactions in biological space’ won the inaugural Fourmentin-Guilbert Foundation Award for Best Lightning Talk, based on popular vote by VIZBI 2016 participants. Benedetta explained protein interactions using a choreographed dance routine; she received a cash prize of €1,500 from the Fourmentin-Guilbert Foundation.

David Ma’s “Minardo: Untangling the Hairball” won the Nature Methods Award after coming second place in the vote for best scientific poster at VIZBI 2016. Congratulations to David and co-authors Christian Stolte, James Krycer, David James, and Seán O’Donoghue. David will receive a subscription to Nature Methods.

Fidel Ramírez’s innovative work ‘Hi-C Explorer: Tools to process and visualize chromosome conformation’ won the NVIDIA Best Scientific Poster Award, based on popular vote by VIZBI 2016 participants. Congratulations to Fidel and co-authors Vivek Bhardwaj and Thomas Manke – they received a Quadro M6000 video card.

Slides from the second breakout session (Thursday, 10 March 2016) are available at http://vizbi.org/Lightning/2016/F.

Slides from the first breakout session (Wednesday, 9 March 2016) are now available at http://vizbi.org/Lightning/2016/E.

The art & biology submissions for VIZBI 2016 are now online at http://vizbi.org/Posters/?category=Art&year=2016. The Autodesk Art & Biology Award will be decided later today for the most popular submission, voted by participants.

Scientific posters for VIZBI 2016 are now online at http://vizbi.org/Posters/2016. The most popular submission, voted by participants, will receive the NVIDIA Poster Award; the runner-up will receive the Nature Methods Poster Award.