VISUALIZING BIOLOGICAL DATA VIZBI

The complete program for VIZBI 2021, the 11th international meeting on Visualising Biological Data, is now online. VIZBI 2021 will be an EMBL Virtual Conference, taking place online from March 24-26, with sponsors including ISCB’s BioVis COSI. The conference features keynotes from Daniel Weiskopf (U. Stuttgart, Germany), Fabian de Kok-Mercado (HHMI, USA), and Petra Isenberg (Inria, France), as well as talks from 18 leading researchers, reviewing how data visualization is transforming life science research.

To join the meeting, visit the VIZBI Registration page. This page also outlines opportunities for childcare grants and registration fee waivers.

We are pleased to announce that – as with previous years – NVIDIA have agreed to sponsor a generous prize for the poster that best exemplifies the use of data visualization to gain clear, compelling insight into an important scientific problem. The award winner will receive a Quadro M6000 card, one of the world’s most powerful GPUs, making real-time photorealistic rendering possible for even complex scenes. It can drive up to four 4K displays simultaneously, and its 3,072 CUDA cores make it perfect for many scientific applications. To upload your poster, use the submission link in your VIZBI registration email. Accepted posters will be published in the VIZBI poster gallery. The deadline for upload is February 26 at 23:59 CET (deadline has been extended).

VIZBI 2014 delegates can now propose and vote on topics for discussion during the two unconference breakout sessions scheduled after the afternoon coffee break on Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th March.

This will be the second time that we have run these un-conference style group discussions. The VIZBI 2013 breakout session included discussions on ways of improving visual communication in papers, dealing with ‘balls of yarn’, and exploring highly variable regions in sequencing data. It also provided an opportunity for community building – and two of the biggest groups discussed the 2013 BioVis contest and the collaborative development of javascript libraries for biological visualization. One of the most important parts of an unconference is that discussion doesn’t take place behind closed doors. Delegates can move between groups until they find a topic they’d like to sit in on, and representatives are elected to present lightning talks the following day.  These allow everyone attending VIZBI to hear the results of each discussion.

With two unconference breakout sessions this year, and a Heidelberg Unseminars in Bioinformatics meeting on the evening of the tutorial day, there are lots of opportunities for you to get together with like-minded members of the biological visualization community for constructive discussion. So, if you are coming to VIZBI 2014 and have a topic you want to explore, then check your inbox for the link and propose your topic now!