Draft Agenda for Annual Meeting:
Day One
8:00 Registration & Breakfast
8:30 U24 Genomic Projects Perspective: Brief presentations and Panel Discussion. Discussion topics to include engagement with users; considerations for transitioning to early prototype to broadly used software; obstacles to success
- Trinity: Transcriptome assembly for genetic and functional analysis of cancer
- Cancer Genomics:Integrative and Scalable Solutions in R / Bioconductor
- NDEx – the Network Data Exchange A Network Commons for Biologists
- Cloud Based Resource for Data Hosting, Visualization and Analysis Using UCSC Xena
10:00 Break
10:15 Industry Panel: Discussion topics to include considerations for using open source software; collaborations with academic groups; overall informatics needs
12:00 Lunch
1:00 U24 Clinical Projects Perspective – Brief presentations and panel discussion. Discussion topics to include engagement with users; considerations for transitioning to early prototype to broadly used software; obstacles to success
- Advanced Development of TIES-Enhancing Access to Tissue for Cancer Research
- Informatics Tools for Optimized Imaging Biomarkers for Cancer Research & Discovery
- Cancer Deep Phenotype Extraction from Electronic Medical Records
- Quantitative Image Informatics for Cancer Research (QIICR)
- Tools to Analyze Morphology and Spatially Mapped Molecular Data
2:30 Break
2:45 Flash Talks: New projects promoting posters
- Computational Framework for Single-Cell Genomics of Tumors
- Informatics Links between Histological Features and Genetics in Cancer
- Advanced Development of an Open-source Platform for Web-based Integrative Digital Image Analysis in Cancer
- GenePattern Notebooks for Cancer Research
- Informatics Quantitative Radiomics System Decoding the Tumor Phenotype
3:15 Poster Sessions and Demos (11 demos)
- Demos by U01 and U24 projects (excluding new awardees), two running simultaneously, 20 min each
- Posters by new projects; U01 and U24 invited but not “required”
6:00 Dinner
Day Two
8:30 Keynote – Stephen Friend
9:15 Panel Discussion: 5 U01 Projects: Brief presentations and panel discussion. Discussion topics to include:
- Challenges in early stage development
- Recruiting users and community at the early stages of a project
- (additional topics)
10:45 Break
11:00 Poster Sessions and Demos (11 demos)
- Demos by U01 and U24 projects (excluding new awardees), two running simultaneously, 20 min each
- Posters by new projects; U01 and U24 invited but not “required”
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Poster sessions and demos (continued)
2:30 Presentations on funded collaborations and new proposals
3:30 Activities of the Training and Outreach Working Group
4:00 Closing remarks and adjourn