[Biopython] Fwd: [biohackathon:1593] Call for proposals to be invited for the BioHackathon 2017

[Peter Cock]

Hello all,

I've had the pleasure of attending some of the NBDC/DBCLS BioHackathon
meetings in Japan, and would encourage any of you working in this area to
consider submitting a proposal. The meeting focus has shifted towards RDF
data in recent years, but not exclusively so.

You can read the public BioHackathon mailing list on Google Groups, e.g.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/biohackathon/d8XGLfT5jHU

Regards,

Peter


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Toshiaki Katayama <ktym at dbcls.jp>
Date: Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 6:33 AM
Subject: [biohackathon:1593] Call for proposals to be invited for the
BioHackathon 2017
To: biohackathon at googlegroups.com
Cc: 2017-admin at biohackathon.org


Dear BioHackers,

National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC) and Database Center for
Life Science (DBCLS) are pleased to announce that the 10th NBDC/DBCLS
BioHackathon will be held in Tokyo (symposium) and Morioka (hackathon)
in collaboration with the Iwate Medical University from Sep 9th to
16th, 2017 in Japan.

* http://2017.biohackathon.org/

To extend our invitation to those who have fresh ideas, we call for
submission of your proposals. After screening by the organizers, the
authors of successful proposals will be invited with financial support
for travel expenses (one author per a proposal). We are particularly
interested in promoting development for standardization and
interoperability of life sciences / biomedical databases and their
applications in data science such as:

* Standardization of RDF data, metadata, ontologies and provenance
* Interoperable system for interlinking database resources
* Development of tools for automation, utilization and documentation of RDF data
* Development of applications including visualization for Linked Open Data
* Application of machine learning and artificial intelligence
technologies on RDF data
* Data science to grasp information from large scale and heterogeneous
RDF datasets
* Reproducible research and workflows for bioinformatics, wet biology
and robotics
* Natural language processing, literature annotation and QA system for
knowledge discovery
* Quality assessment of SPARQL endpoints, RDF data and triple stores

The target domains may include:

* Human genome variation, epigenomics, drugs and biomedical information
* Other animal, plant and microbial genomics with phenotypes and orthology
* Omics including metagenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics,
metabolomics and glycomics
* Any other relevant life sciences and biomedical research

Please send your proposal by May 5th, 2017 on google form linked at
http://2017.biohackathon.org/proposals including the following
sections:

* Abstract of your proposal
* Novelty of your idea
* Possibility of collaboration/connection with existing apps or methods
* Software dependency, system architecture
* Estimated time of completion for prototyping and/or production
* RDF datasets/SPARQL endpoints to be used (if any)
* Related work, references and URLs (if any)
* GitHub or any other public repositories of your FOSS products (if any)
* Figure to describe your idea (optional but highly recommended)
* Financial support option

Submitted proposals will be evaluated by the organizers in terms of
creativity, usefulness, feasibility, and suitability for the
BioHackathon.

Note that we will not disclose your applications and how we evaluate
your proposals. The number of selected proposals depends on our
limited budget.

Please feel free to distribute this message to appropriate candidates!

Best regards,
Toshiaki Katayam on behalf of the NBDC/DBCLS BioHackathon 2017 organizers
Database Center for Life Science

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