Symposium

Public symposium of the BioHackathon 2016 will be held at the Metabolome campus of the Institute for Advanced Biosciences , Keio University, Tsuruoka, Yamagata, Japan on Jun 12 (Sun).
Symposium video recordings are available at YouTube (Aug 1st, 2016)
Note for speakers : Please try to leave few minutes for Q&A within a given slot (except for lightning talks).
  • 8:30 Meet up at the hotel lobby
  • 9:00 Registration opens / Coffee
  • 10:00 Introduction and Special Talks
  • 10:00-10:10 Introduction to the BioHackathon 2016
    Toshiaki Katayama Database Center for Life Science, Japan
    10:10-10:30 Welcome address: Institute for Advanced Biosciences
    Masaru Tomita Keio University, Japan
    10:30-10:40 Hacking user interface designs for the effective exploration of biological data
    Kazuharu Arakawa Keio University, Japan
    10:40-10:50 Integrated database “ dbTMM ”: integration of large-scale data of genomic prospective cohort study in Tohoku Medical Megabank project toward personalized healthcare
    Soichi Ogishima Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Japan
  • 10:50 Talks by App Contest Winners
  • 10:50-11:10 MetaExplorere : how to mine data from metagenomics experiments
    Francesco Strozzi Enterome, France
    11:10-11:30 A Wikidata Powered Model Organism Database of Microbes
    Timothy E Putman The Scripps Research Institute, USA
    11:30-11:50 Drug Safety portal
    Juan M Banda Stanford University, USA
  • 11:50 Group photo
  • 12:00 Lunch
  • 13:00 Talks (15min + 5min for questions)
  • 13:00-13:20 Facilitating semantic alignment of EBI services
    Simon Jupp European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
    13:20-13:40 Progress towards a semantic representation of PubChem
    Evan Bolton National Center for Biotechnology Information, USA
    13:40-14:00 Impact of schema.org in the semantic web and interoperability of life sciences data
    Rafael C Jimenez ELIXIR, UK
    14:00-14:20 Providing Model Organism Linked Data From InterMine
    Michel Dumontier Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
    14:20-14:40 disgenet2r: the DisGeNET R package
    Núria Queralt Rosinach Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques, Spain
    14:40-15:00 Public Data Repositories and Standards in Proteomics
    Eric Deutsch Institute for Systems Biology, USA
  • 15:00 Coffee break
  • 15:30 Talks (15min + 5min for questions)
  • 15:30-15:50 Dogma conscious and agnostic sharing of high-throughput data
    Hideya Kawaji RIKEN, Japan
    15:50-16:10 Resequencing against a pan-genome
    Erik Garrison Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
    16:10-16:30 The Graph Positional Burrows-Wheeler Transform
    Adam Novak University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
  • 16:30 Lightning talks (5min each)
  • 16:30-16:35 Fast and accurate long read alignment on string graphs
    Hajime Suzuki
    16:35-16:40 The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health APIs
    Benedict Paten
    16:40-16:45 Patient matchmaking over a federated network
    Orion Buske
    16:45-16:50 The Noctua Modeling and other Berkeley BOP software projects
    Seth Carbon
    16:50-16:55 EpiRR - A registry for reference epigenomes
    Alessandro Vullo
    16:55-17:00 Omics Discovery Index-Discovering and Linking Public Omics Datasets
    Rafael C Jimenez
    17:00-17:05 Data Linking with GenboreeKB and the Allele Registry
    Lillian Ashmore
    17:05-17:10 Database Construction and Functional Varidations for the Metabolic Enzymes in Euglena
    Takeshi Kawashima
    17:10-17:15 GlyTouCan Design and Development
    Nobuyuki Aoki
    17:15-17:20 J- phenome : a portal of Japanese phenotype data
    Hiroshi Masuya
    17:20-17:25 Gamification for establishing biomedical edges in Wikidata.
    Sebastian Burgstaller
    17:25-17:30 Plant breeding knowledge management using Semantic Web technologies
    Erick Antezana
    17:30-17:35 Finally reusable data, FRED
    Alexander Garcia
    17:35-17:40 Toward the Experimental Protocol Description Standard
    Tazro Ohta
    17:40-17:45 BioRuby
    Naohisa Goto
    17:45-17:50 Traversing class-class relationships for constructing a SPARQL query
    Atsuko Yamaguchi
    17:50-17:55 Question and Answering over Linked Open Data
    Jin-Dong Kim
  • 18:00 Bus to the hackathon venue
  • 19:00 Reception party
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