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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

  • All participants are expected to bring their own laptops
  • WiFi access wll be through either eduroam or using the above login
  • Access to power sockets will be available so please bring your power adapter
  • Please ensure you are running a current browser (i.e. chrome, firefox etc)

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)
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)
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
9:50am - 10:30am Lightning Talks
Mr Shian Su (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
CellBench: software for comparing single cell analyses
Dr Peter Hickey (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
Using the Delayed Array framework for processing large datasets
Mr Brian Skjerven (Pawsey Super-Computing Centre)
The use of Docker containers to support R-based bioinformatics workflows on an HPC system
Ms Anna Quaglieri (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
R-Ladies: An update on the local and wider picture
Dr Saskia Freytag (Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
dtangle: accurate and robust cell type deconvolution
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)
Mr Harry Fong (CSL Ltd)
abseqR: reporting and data analysis functionalities for Rep-Seq datasets of antibody libraries
Dr Tim Peters (Garvan Institute of Medical Research)
A general framework for evaluating cross-platform concordance in genomic studies
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)
Orchestrating Single-Cell RNA-Sequencing Analysis with Bioconductor
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
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.
Ms Yingxin Lin (University Of Sydney)
scMerge: Integration of multiple single-cell transcriptomics datasets leveraging stable expression and pseudo-replication
Dr Davis McCarthy (St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research)
The ever-expanding and ever-improving Bioconductor ecosystem for single-cell data analysis
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 Martin Morgan
4:40pm - 5:00pm Closing Remarks