Sessions Q to V - Birds of a Feather

This year we are organising Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions on May 21 in the afternoon (13:15 - 14:15h).

The aim of a BoF session is to discuss a topic of your choice in an informal setting; attendees group together based on a shared interest and carry out discussions without any pre-planned agenda. The BOF topics will be announced via the conference website so participants will be able to join the session that interests them most.

If you would like to submit a topic for a BoF session, please send us an e-mail!
 

Planned BoF sessions:

Session Q (room 5, start at 12:45 h)

BIUP session
Bioinformatics Industrial User Platform (BIUP)
As in former editions of the NBIC conferences, the Bioinformatics Industrial User Platform (BIUP) will organise a BIUP meeting specifically aimed at conference participants from industry. The meeting is planned on May 21, during the Birds of a Feather sessions, but will already start at 12:45!! More information
 

Session R (in restaurant, 13:15 h)

Join the network of young computational biologists, bioinformaticians and systems biologists in the Netherlands!
Young Computational Biologists Netherlands
What can Young Computational Biologists Netherlands do for you? We are a network of young computational biologists, bioinformaticians and systems biologists in the Netherlands. We are the official Regional Student Group (RSG) Netherlands of the Student Council of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), and collaborate with both the BioSB research school and ISCB. If you would like to learn more about the our activities, how to join or even how to become a board member then please join the our BOF meeting at the BioSB conference!
 

Session S (gather in front of the conference centre)

Running through the woods - May 21, 07:30 (!)
Judith Boer
In the morning of May 21, before breakfast, Judith Boer is inviting conference participants to run through the woods of Lunteren together. If you are interested to participate, please make sure to gather in front of the conference centre at 07:30. Don't forget to bring your running shoes...

Walking through the woods - May 21, 13:15 h
Judith Boer
During the BoF session there will be a walk trough the woods of Lunteren for anyone who can use some fresh air. If you are interested to participate, please make sure to gather in front of the conference centre at 13:15 and bring suitable shoes...

Session T (room: Room Azie, 13:15 h)

ADAM+Apache Spark and other new open source tools for large scale genomics data processing
Pieter Lukasse
Are you planning to OR are you working with large scale genomics data (e.g. thousands of genomes) and are you using or evaluating new interesting (and hopefully popular and fully open source) frameworks that are up to the task? Come share your experience with your peers! 

NB: you are encouraged to bring one or two slides or share them with pieter@thehyve.nl. Goal is to make this a session with many quick "knowledge/experience sharing" presentations.
 

Session U to V

TBC
 

Other/Special Sessions:

Session N - ELIXIR-ISBE session: Challenges of Data Stewardship
Date: May 21
Time: 10:45 - 12:15 and 13:15 - 14:15
Room: Amerika
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Session P - Metagenomics topical track
Date: May 21
Time: 10:45 - 12:15
Room: Azie
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