fyi,
Note limit of 30 participants.
Paul
> Bioinformatics Challenge Day
> Join us for a 1-day hackathon tackling problems in bioinformatics
>
> Who:
>
> Calling all statisticians/mathematicians, geneticists, programmers,
> microbiologists, algorithms researchers, and hackers of all types.
>
> The Problem:
>
> A continuing revolution in DNA sequencing technology has given us
> sequencer machines with significantly higher throughput and reduced costs
> than the tools of just five years ago. These can sequence up to one
> billion bases in a single day, revolutionizing how we study the natural
> world and advancing our medical understanding. We can now use sequencing
> to learn about complex microbial populations, or to look for trace signs
> of a pathogen in a patient.
>
> Yet these new technologies also pose new challenges for the software
> tools used to reconstruct and understand genetic information. They create
> a data analysis bottleneck, whereby the increase in the volume of raw
> sequences is threatening to overwhelm our data archives.
>
> The Event:
>
> The Bioinformatics Challenge Day focuses on both the challenges and
> opportunities presented by advances in bioinformatics. During this
> all-day hackathon-style event, participants will be presented with an
> array of existing technologies used to assemble, align, visualize, and
> otherwise analyze raw sequence data. They will build on this base of
> open-source software to envision new approaches to data processing,
> analysis, and visualization. Participants will focus on one or more
> challenges, which may include:
>
> a. Analyzing environmental samples for a location sampled on multiple
> days.
> b. Developing a visualization tools to facilitate analysis of
> metagenomic data with unknown numbers of genomes at varying
> concentrations.
> c. Performing de novo assembly from clinical samples with an emphasis
> on pathogen identification.
> d. Identifying signatures of genetic engineering in a mixed
population
>
> This Challenge Day is organized by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and sponsored
> by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). Challenge Day is also an
> experiment in applying the one-day hackathon format to challenges in
> bioinformatics.
>
> The Logistics:
>
> This event will be held on February 2, 2013 at the MIT Media Lab in
> Cambridge, MA. Participation will be limited to 30 individuals, with
> backgrounds from diverse fields and with various levels of experience
> (from undergraduates to advanced professionals). While Challenge Day is
> free, registration and a simple application of one paragraph (or more,
> but no more than one page) are required. In your application, please: 1)
> describe your own technical background (need not include bioinformatics);
> 2) describe your interest in bioinformatics; and 3) confirm that you will
> be available for the full day of 2/2/13. Direct these and any questions
> to Peter Carr (c...@ll.mit.edu) at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
>
>
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