VISUALIZING BIOLOGICAL DATA VIZBI

The early bird registration for VIZBI is closing after today, 7th of February 2015. Have you decided which two from the twelve tutorials you’ll sign up for this year? Below is a brief reminder of what’s on offer.

MORNING SESSIONS

In the morning session of the VIZBI 2015 tutorial day you can choose from the following six tutorials:

• Daniel Huson on metagenome exploration with MEGAN
• Noam Shoresh on CURSOR
• Francis Rowland and Ryo Sakai on Rapid data vis. design

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

Among the afternoon’s six offerings you can find single tool/group tutorials as well as three thematic tutorials, which combine tools developed by different groups. Like above, clicking on each title will take you to the tutorial description on the program page.

• Single cell sequencing and functional genomics data with UCSC Xena and Ginkgo, with Mary Goldman and Robert Aboukhalil
• Structure visualisation with Aquaria and UCSF Chimera, with Seán O’Donoghue and Sam Hertig

Genomes in 3D Juicebox, TADKit and Genome3D Neva C. Durand, Jim Robinson, Mike Goodstadt, Marc A. Marti-Renom, Jim Zheng and Jijun Tang
Reuse, develop and share biological visualisation with BioJS Manuel Corpas, Tatyana Goldberg, Guy Yachdav, Sebastian Wilzbach and David Dao
Spatially realistic single-cell models from high-content microscopy data Jacob Czech, Greg Johnson, Bálint Antal and José Juan Tapia
Garuda – The way biology connects Samik Ghosh, Hiroaki Kitano and Yukiko Matsuoka

We’ve had a couple of changes to the program since the first announcement of the tutorials available on the VIZBI 2015 tutorial day (Tuesday 25th March).

The two changes are in the afternoon session: Unfortunately, the IGB tutorial due to be given by Ann Loraine will not now take place, so sorry to disappoint if you were looking forward to getting into some in-depth discussion with the creators of that great tool. Jeremy Goecks and the other Galaxy folk have also had to pull out from the joint tutorial on employing galaxy, Ginkgo and UCSC Xena for single cell sequencing and functional genomics.

Stay tuned for some more details about the tutorials, and see the VIZBI 2015 program for full descriptions.