This month’s London BioGeeks will be at Imperial on the 21st of October. This month we’re bringing you a special selection of talks on next generation sequencing: Experience in variant calling from exome sequencing Francesco Lescai, Elia Stupka Sequencing whole exomes in order to identify high penetrant variants in few individuals is becoming relatively easy, [...]
Also taggedThe next London BioGeeks tech meet will be on 21st of October at Imperial College — full details to follow. We’re looking for another speaker. If you want to do an informal talk on a topic to do with bioinformatics, genomics, or any practical tech subject that might be of interest to biogeeks — cloud [...]
Also taggedThe May tech meet is on Thursday 20th at Imperial College. This month’s speakers: Catherine Canevet — Ondex: Data integration and visualisation Christopher Barnes — ABC-SysBio: Approximate Bayesian Computation in Python with GPU support N. Purswani, L. Tweedy, Z. Patel, C. Suriel-Melchor — DASbrick: A cloud based Rich internet application for Synthetic Biology Parts Registries [...]
Also taggedThis month’s tech meet is at 6pm on 21st April at University College London. We have talks from… Alison Cuff, UCL The CATH database — Structural Diversity and the Question of the Fold Continuum Andrew Martin, UCL SAPTF — Sequence Analysis Plugin Tool Framework John Pinney, Imperial College GLASS — Gene LAyout by Semantic Similarity [...]
Also taggedTomorrow I’m giving a London BioGeeks talk about Solr, the Lucene-based search engine we’re using at CATH, and soon Smesh too. The slides are available here (PDF, 500KB). If you’re in London, come along, everyone’s welcome. Details here. We also have Manuel Corpas on KaryoDAS, and Phil Dawes on Git. And beer afterwards.
Also tagged biogeeks, git, karyodas, solrI’ll also be running an interactive workshop on FuncNet at: The EMBRACE-ENFIN workshop on Expression, Interactions, and System Level Modeling Helsinki, 5th-6th October 2009
Also tagged FuncNet, webservicesCouple of upcoming events I’ll be going to… 1. Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2009) in Manchester next month, with a poster and abstract about FuncNet. 2. EMBL-EBI/ENFIN 2009 annual forum for small-medium enterprises (SMEs), in Vienna in September, with a half-hour talk on the same subject. No ISMB for me this year, [...]
Also tagged FuncNet, webservicesPub meet-up for bioinformaticians / technophile biologists at: The Miller pub, near Guy’s Hospital (London Bridge) on Wednesday 27th May from 6pm onwards. This first meeting will just be a social event and chance to chat other bio-geeks but if there’s enough interest then we might organise some more technical events in the future (topic [...]
Also tagged drinkingSemantic Enrichment of the Scientific Literature 2009 Tue 31 Mar: “Semantic Enrichment of the literature for the benefit of all users” (Monday’s notes are here) Missed the early morning session. I don’t work in pharma any more so it didn’t seem worth a 5:45am wake-up (unhelpful train times). Although apparently Eric Neumann’s talk on linked [...]
Also tagged ontologies, publishing, SESL, text_miningSemantic Enrichment of the Scientific Literature 2009 Monday 30 Mar: “Reliable factual data from the literature based on ontological resources” Highlight of the morning session was Junichi Tsujii’s demo of the PathText system, which integrates manually-curated pathway information in CellDesigner or SBML format with text-mined relationships, and lets you browse the pathway maps and drill [...]
Also tagged ontologies, publishing, SESL, text_mining
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