== '''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