[BioC] Announcement: BioConductor Developer Workshop, Lausanne 2008

[Darlene Goldstein]

BioConductor Developer Workshop
24 - 25 April 2008
Lausanne, Switzerland

This meeting is aimed at active developers as well as prospective developers
interested in improving package writing skills and contributing to the
BioConductor project.

The workshop will be held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, with
English as the working language.  Registration is free, but the number of
participants is limited to 50.

Potential program topics include:

-- Exploiting existing libraries (e.g., BOOST, graphviz, ImageMagic, libxml)
-- Database interactions
-- 'Large' data -- strategies in and out of R
-- Representation and data structures for new (non-microarray) data
-- Accessing and providing web-based resources

The meeting will start on the morning of Thursday 24 April, so you should plan
to arrive by the evening before.  A more detailed program and additional local
information (lodging, transportation, etc) will be posted soon.  The closest
airport is in Geneva.

Please indicate your interest in attending by sending an email to
darlene dot goldstein at epfl dot ch (dot = . ; at = @).  It will be helpful for
scheduling if you indicate topics of interest, including additional suggestions
if you don't see them listed here.

We look forward to your participation!

Program Committee:  Wolfgang Huber, Robert Gentleman, Rafael Irizarry, Jim
McDonald, Sean Davis, Vince Carey, Martin Morgan, Li Long

Local Organizer:  Darlene Goldstein

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Darlene Goldstein
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Institut de mathématiques
Bâtiment MA, Station 8        Tel: +41 21 693 5565
CH-1015 Lausanne              Fax: +41 21 693 4303
SWITZERLAND