The 2017 UK Bioinformatics Core Facilities Meeting 2017 will take place in the Clore Suite at the Great North Museum: Hancock.
For full details on travel to the museum, see their informative website.
The meeting will b e split into themed sections, with short talks around those themes. If you'd like to contribute to a session, contact the organisers.
A discussion of the challenges facing the core facility in 2017 - featuring talks on training (Mark Dunning, CRUK Cambridge Intitute), and the relationship between the core facility and bioinformatics researchers outwith the core (Matthew Bashton, Northern Institute for Cancer Research, Newcastle University).
Are the analyses you're supporting becoming more and more diverse? Is your core becoming more research-focussed, and less about running pipelines on standard inputs?
More than 10 yeasrs on from the Next Generation Sequencing revolution, bioinformatics is still constantly having to adapt to a learn about new technologies. In this session, we'll hear about just some of these, including the Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION (Peter Ashton, York University), the FluidIGM Helios CyTOF (Rachel Queen, Newcastle University) and applications of Pacific Biosciences SMRT sequencing (Philip Lobb, PacBio).
Many core facilities provide access to high performance computing resources for biologists. What infrastructure is best-suited to modern bioinformatics? Should it all be about job queues and local hardware? Or does the cloud have a significant role to play? This session will feature talks from Amazon Web Services, Illumina and Simon Andrews (Babraham Institute).
The relationship between core facilities and scientific funders is not alwaya an obvious one. In this part of the program, we will hear from the representatives of some of the organisations. Featuring talks from Michael Ball (BBSRC), John Hancock (Elixir-UK) and Simone Bryan (MRC).
What do you want to talk about that isn't already on the program? Bring your suggestions!
Download the full program (Dropbox Link).
