BioC Asia, 2018
Melbourne, Australia
BioC Asia 2018
29-30 November, 2018
University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
General Information
Registration will be outside Room 253, Arts West, University of Melbourne
- Morning and Afternoon tea will be provided outside Room 253
- Lunch will not be provided and participants are required to make their own arrangements
Visitor Wi-Fi information:
- Username:
abacbs - Password:
N@a7co
An etherpad site is also available for any online discussion during the workshops
Workshop Day: 29 November, 2018
Rooms 261 & 263, Arts West, University of Melbourne
Provisional Timetable
| Time | Room 261 (Beginner) | Room 263 (Intermediate) |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00am - 10:30am | An Introduction To Linear Models Paul Harrison |
Building a Bioconductor Package Martin Morgan |
| 10:30am - 11:00am | Morning Tea (Provided) |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm | Genomic Ranges and plyranges Stuart Lee |
classifyR Dario Strbenac and Shila Ghazanfar |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Bioconductor Annotation Packages Martin Morgan |
Single cell RNA-seq analysis Yunshun Chen |
| 3:00pm - 3:40pm | Differential binding analysis for ChIP-seq data Alex Garnham |
Differential analysis of HiC data with diffHic Hannah Coughlan |
| 3:40pm - 4:10pm | Afternoon Tea (Provided) |
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| 4:10pm - 5:00pm | Differential binding analysis for ChIP-seq data (continued) |
Differential analysis of HiC data with diffHic (continued) |
Conference Day: 30 November, 2018
Room 556, Arts West, University of Melbourne
Provisional Timetable
| Time | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00am - 9:50am | Professor Martin Morgan Project updates & Getting to know you |
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| 9:50am - 10:30am | Lightning Talks | |
| Mr Shian Su (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) CellBench: software for comparing single cell analyses |
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| Dr Peter Hickey (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) Using the Delayed Array framework for processing large datasets |
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| Mr Brian Skjerven (Pawsey Super-Computing Centre) The use of Docker containers to support R-based bioinformatics workflows on an HPC system |
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| Ms Anna Quaglieri (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) R-Ladies: An update on the local and wider picture |
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| Dr Saskia Freytag (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) dtangle: accurate and robust cell type deconvolution |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am | Morning Tea | |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm | Research talks / Software demos (I) | |
| Dr Peter Hickey (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) Getting help and helping others (including future you) |
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| Mr Harry Fong (CSL Ltd) abseqR: reporting and data analysis functionalities for Rep-Seq datasets of antibody libraries |
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| Dr Tim Peters (Garvan Institute of Medical Research) A general framework for evaluating cross-platform concordance in genomic studies |
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| Prof. Gordon Smyth (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) | ||
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm - 2:20pm | Keynote presentation Assistant Professor Stephanie Hicks (Johns Hopkins University) |
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| 2:20pm - 3:40pm | Research talks / Software demos (II) | |
| Ms Sarah Williams (Monash University) Celaref: Annotating single-cell RNAseq clusters by similarity to reference datasets |
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| Dr Saskia Freytag (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) Efforts towards a definitive pipeline for the analysis of matched single cell nuclei RNA-seq. |
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| Ms Yingxin Lin (University Of Sydney) scMerge: Integration of multiple single-cell transcriptomics datasets leveraging stable expression and pseudo-replication Abstract Presentation |
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| Dr Davis McCarthy (St Vincent’s Institute) Updates on the single-cell package ecosystem |
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| 3:40pm - 4:10pm | Afternoon Tea | |
| 4:10pm - 4:40pm | Panel Discussion: Grand challenges in Single Cell Data Analysis | |
| Moderator: Associate Professor Alicia Oshlack | ||
| Panelists: Assistant Professor Stephanie Hicks Professor Gordon Smyth Professor Martin Morgan |
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| 4:40pm - 5:00pm | Closing Remarks |