Scientific Meetings, Workshops, and other Events

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• ISMB 2018
  July 6-10, 2018
  Chicago, IL
  The BD2K session at ISMB will be held on July 7-8, 2018. There will be a BD2K booth with demos, and 6 thematic sessions showcasing grantees posters, presentations, and panel discussions. The sessions are as follows:
  
  Saturday, July 7

  • Young Investigators (10:15-12:30)
  • Building the FAIR Data Ecosystem for Discovery to Health (2:00-4:00)
  • Machine Learning Approaches to Enable Biomedical Discoveries (4:30-6:00)

  Sunday, July 8

  • Biomedical Data Science in Action (10:15-12:30)
  • BD2K Power Tools: Moving to the Cloud with Industrial Strength Data (2:00-4:00)
  • BD2K Data Visualization Tools and Future Directions (4:30-6:00)
• POTATO: Phenotype Ontologies Traversing All The Organisms
  August 6-7, 2018
  Corvallis, Oregon
  This workshop will focus on harmonizing data standards across organismal boundaries.
• BD2K Session at NIEHS Workshop on Developing a Data Science Competent EHS Workforce
  August 14-15, 2018
  Research Triangle Park, NC
  The NIEHS Data Science Training Workshop will offer a session relating BD2K accomplishments to/bd2k/meetings environmental health science (EHS) training goals. The goal of this session will be to examine existing training resources relevant to the intersection of EHS and data science, including existing data science training resources.
  This workshop is not open to the public.

Past Meetings and Workshops

• BD2K biomedical and healthCAre Data Discovery Index Ecosystem (bioCADDIE) Workshop
  August 17, 2018
  John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center, Bethesda, MD
  This workshop will focus on bioCADDIE accomplishments over the past 4 years, and report on lessons learned and artifacts that inform other relevant efforts on data indexing.
• 2018 Society of Biological Psychiatry
  May 10-12, 2018
  New York, NY
  See the abstract book showcasing the collective work of the BD2K ENIGMA consortium.
• ​​​​​ITCR 2018 Annual Meeting
  May 23-24, 2018
  Natcher Conference Center, Bethesda, MD
  BD2K Data Compression grantees participated in the NCI-sponsored ITCR 2018 Annual Meeting. A list of poster presentations and lightning talks is provided below. For additional information please visit the ITCR 2018 Annual Meeting agenda and poster abstract book.
  • Peter Rose, University of California, San Diego 
    Poster 50 - "MMTF-Spark: Interactive, Scalable, and Reproducible Datamining of 3D Macromolecular Structures"
    Talk: Day 2, Lightning Talks
  • Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University
    Poster 51 - "Integrated Querying of Biological Network Databases"
    Talk: Day 2, Lightning Talks
  • Olgica Milenkovic, Mikel Hernaez, Idoia Ochoa, Jianhao Peng, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    Poster 52 - “Multiomics Data Compression”
    Talk: Day 2, Lightning Talks
• Phenomics Hackathon
  May 29-30, 2018
  Toronto, Canada
• mHealth Technology Showcase
  June 4, 2018
  Bethesda, MD
  Materials presented at the mhealth Technology Showcase are available on the MD2K website.
• Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS) and Big Data 
  March 19-20, 2018
  Bethesda, MD
• Game Developers Conference
  March 19-23, 2018
  San Francisco, CA
• BD2K-LINCS Data Science Symposium
  January 31-Feburary 2, 2018
  Miami, FL

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