Biological Visualization Community Meetup 2014

Biological Visualization Community Meetup

10 November 2014 @ IEEE VIS in Paris, France

OrganizersJessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

Meeting Google Doc at http://bit.ly/1u1O7dg!

http://bit.ly/1u1O7dg

Meeting Google Doc at http://bit.ly/1u1O7dg

Plan• community activities and events

• BioVis 2014/2015/2016

• VIZBI 2015

• VCBM 2015

• BiVi Community

• ISCB COSI

• open discussion



Activities and Events• 07/2014 - BioVis 2014 (Boston, USA)

• 11/2014 - VIS & BioVis Community Meetup (Paris, France)

• 12/2014 - BiVi 1st Annual Meeting (Edinburgh, UK)

• 03/2015 - VIZBI 2015 (Cambridge, USA)

• 07/2015 - BioVis 2015 (Dublin, Ireland)

• 09/2015 - VCBM 2015 (Chester, Uk)

• 10/2015 - VIS (Chicago, USA)



BioVis 2014 / www.biovis.net• 11-12 July 2014 in Boston, USA

• Special Interest Group meeting at ISMB/ECCB 2015

• Keynote: Tamara Munzner (UBC)

• Challenge Speakers: Karl Broman (U Wisconsin-Madison) & Serdar Turkarslan (Institute for Systems Biology)

• Primer Speakers: Marc Streit (JKU Linz) & Bang Wong (Broad Institute)

• 24 other talks



BioVis 2015 / www.biovis.net• 10-11 July 2015 in Dublin, Ireland

• Special Interest Group meeting at ISMB/ECCB 2015

• Deadlines

• Paper submission: February 15, 2015

• Poster submission: May 29, 2015

• Data Analysis Contest entry submission: May 1, 2015

• Design Contest entry submission: May 1, 2015



BioVis 2015 / www.biovis.net

• all papers will be available in IEEE Digital Library and/or BMC Proceedings

• papers will also be considered for BMC Bioinformatics using a 2-stage review process


BioVis 2015 Design Contest

ChairsRyo Sakai, KU Leuven, Belgium Eamonn Maguire, Oxford University, England

Both are here at VIS, so just speak with us for more information!

RNA Structure Evolution.

Challenge 1 Visualizing RNA structure base pair uncertainty

Challenge 2 Visualizing RNA Structure Evolution

More details at www.biovis.net/year/2015/design-contest

http://www.biovis.net/year/2015/design-contest


BioVis 2016 / www.biovis.net

• plan is to return to IEEE VIS

• October 2016 in Washington (DC)

• then alternate between VIS and ISMB (1 year or 2 year cycles)



VIZBI 2015 / www.vizbi.org• 25-27 March 2015 in Cambridge, USA

• hosted by the Broad Institute

• 20 invited speakers

• Deadlines

• poster submissions only (usually up to a week before the event)



VCBM 2015 / www.vcbm.org

• 14-15 September 2015 in Chester, UK

• hosted by University of Chester

• Deadlines

• Paper submission: June 21, 2015

• Poster submission: August 07, 2015



International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)• Website: http://www.iscb.org/iscb-cosis

• community of special interest (COSI)

• proposal for BioVis COSI will be submitted shortly

• goal is to establish a permanent presence in the computational biology community

• organize small events (meetups, workshops, etc.) at ISCB conferences when BioVis is taking place at IEEE VIS



Biological Visualisation Community / bivi.co



Biological Visualisation Community / bivi.co• 1st Annual Meeting

• 16-17 December 2014 in Edinburgh, UK

• hosted by Edinburgh Napier University

• Deadlines:

• submission of vis tools or data challenges via bivi.co website



Open Discussion

• Any other announcements?

• Questions at http://bit.ly/1u1O7dg



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Biological Visualization Community Meetup 2014