[Biopython] SciPy 2014 (July 6-12, Austin, Texas, USA)

Wed Jul 16 15:36:51 UTC 2014

Hi all,

Just a quick note to mention that I attended SciPy 2014 last week and it
was a great conference. The bioinformatics talks and birds-of-a-feather
sessions were good BUT there seemed to be a general lack of knowledge of
the existence of biopython. There was a nice talk by Greg Caporaso, author
of QIIME, about a scikit-bio package his group is authoring. During the Q
& A I asked if there was any work going on to make it interactive with
biopython and he said there was not. The scikit-bio package seems to have
a good deal of overlap with the biopython / EMBOSS system and I think it
would be nice to try to make the two interoperable.

For those who are interested the scikit-bio presentation for SciPy 2014
can be viewed here:

	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgBx_DBiPxA

Additionally, I submitted a tutorial proposal for SciPy 2014 and was
turned down as the organizers thought that a tutorial on biopython was a
bit to specific for the conference. Perhaps next year we can organize a
more generic bioinformatics python resource tutorial with biopython,
scikit-bio and another resources of potential use to bioinfomratics users.

Cheers,

Burke

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On 4/1/14 11:44 AM, "Peter Cock" <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> wrote:

>Dear Biopythoneers,
>
>It looks like there was an extension to the SciPy deadline, so
>*today* is your last chance to submit talk or poster abstracts!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Peter
>
>P.S. You have until this *Friday* to submit your BOSC abstracts.
>
>On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
>wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> It is a bit short notice, but some of you may be interested in attending
>> SciPy 2014, which will again have a bioinformatics session. There
>> is still time to submit an abstract (deadline 14 March):
>>
>> https://conference.scipy.org/scipy2014/participate/presentations/
>>
>> "SciPy 2014, the thirteenth annual Scientific Computing with Python
>> conference, will be held this July 6th-12th in Austin, Texas. SciPy is
>> a community dedicated to the advancement of scientific computing
>> through open source Python software for mathematics, science, and
>> engineering. The annual SciPy Conference allows participants from
>> academic, commercial, and governmental organizations to showcase
>> their latest projects, learn from skilled users and developers, and
>> collaborate on code development."
>>
>> Unfortunately SciPy 2014 clashes with BOSC 2014 in Boston,
>> which you may prefer to attend, which is also currently accepting
>> abstracts:
>>
>> http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/BOSC_2014
>> http://www.open-bio.org/wiki/Codefest_2014
>>
>> *Disclaimer*: I am co-chairing BOSC this year.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter
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