Homepage for BGA24!

What are we offering?

Like last year we are offering workshops so people can show the community how their project/software/pipeline/analysis can be used and why they should use it. These workshops will, again, be hosted on GitPod which is a pretty perfect platform for this use case. Just beware you have 50 hours free, so if you want to tune into every session we hope to host then you may struggle! It is only 3.6p (GBP) per hour after those 50 hours, so not exactly bank breaking.

This is BGA at its core, however, this year we are also hoping to showcase “BioinfoBasics”, “Longformat talks” and most interestingly “Workflow Tracks” (you can hover over these to find out more)!

When are we offering it?

1st - 26th October 2024

We hope that we will have sessions to ensure that every time zone gets a chance to turn up and

What sessions are on board already?

We currently have a handful of talks confirmed already and are in discussion with many more!

The current 10 confirmed sessions are:

Session	Leader	Affiliation	Time/Date
A deep dive into JBrowse 2 functionality	Colin Diesh	University of California, Berkeley, USA	08:00 - 10:00 / 10th October
ASCC	Eerik Aunin, Damon-Lee Pointon	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	12:00 - 14:00 / 24th October
Annotating Genomes the Ensembl way	Leanna Haggerty	EMBL-EBI, UK	12:00 - 13:00 / 2nd October
B3	Katharina Hoff	University of Greifswald, Germany	08:00 - 10:00 / 3rd October
Bandage-NG	Anton Korobeynikov	Saint Petersburg State University	18:00 - 20:00 / 11th October
BUSCO	Evgeny Zdobnov, Mose Manni, Matthew Berkley	Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland	12:00 - 14:00 / 14th October
Collaborative Annotation with Apollo 3	Matt Berrimen	University of Glasgow, UK	Session 1: 08:00 - 10:00 / 23rd October Session 2: 19:00 - 21:00 / 23rd October
De novo genome assembly with Colora	Lia Obinu	University of Sassari, Italy	08:00 - 10:00 / 1st October
Thinking in cobiont space	Amjad Khalaf	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	10:00 - 12:00 / 18th October
informatics subcommittee Workshops 1 - Data Management Best Practices and Challenges	Xiaofeng Wei,	China National GeneBank, China	13:00 - 14:00 / 15th October
informatics subcommittee Workshops 2 - Genomic Informatics Tools and Databases (Part 1)	Xiaofeng Wei	China National GeneBank, China	14:00 - 15:00 / 15th October
informatics subcommittee Workshops 3 - Genomic Informatics Tools and Databases (Part 2)	Xiaofeng Wei	China National GeneBank, China	14:00 - 15:00 / 16th October
informatics subcommittee Workshops 4 - Future IT and Informatics Trends in Bioinformatics	Xiaofeng Wei	China National GeneBank, China	15:00 - 16:00 / 16th October
Estimating ploidy directly from sequencing reads using smudgeplot.	Kamil Jaron	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	08:00 - 10:00 / 18th October
ENA Standards and Submission	Maira Ihsan	EMBL-EBI, UK	TBC
EASEL and EnTAP: software for eukaryotic structural and functional genome annotation	Cynthia Webster, Alex Hart	University of Connecticut, USA	15:00 - 17:00 / 25th October
Exploring Satellite DNA using ModDotPlot	Alex Sweeten	Johns Hopkins University, USA	15:00 - 17:00 / 7th October
GENESPACE	John Lovelll	HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, USA	03:00 - 05:00 / 7th October
Genome Assembly in Galaxy with the VGP workflows	Delphine Lariviere	Penn State University, USA	15:00 - 17:00 / 15th October
ToL Assembly Pipeline	Ksenia Krasheninnikova	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	09:00 - 11:00 / 7th October
Genome Note Publications	Bethan Yates	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	13:00 - 15:00 / 11 October
Genome profiling using Genomescope	Kamil Jaron	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	08:00 - 10:00 / 11th October
GFastar	Giulio Formenti	Rockefeller, USA	14:00 - 16:00 / 18th October
GOAT - Genomes on a Tree (UI)	Cibele Sotero-Caio	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	12:00 - 14:00 / 16th October
GOAT - Genomes on a Tree (EBP)	Cibele Sotero-Caio	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	Session 1: 12:00 - 14:00 / 17th October Session 2: 17:00 - 19:00 / 18th October
Inkscaping graphs and workflow diagrams	Petra Korlevic	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	12:00 - 1400 / 3rd October
Local Contexts	Stephany RunningHawk Johnson, Ashley Rojas, Diana Lovette, Ann McCartney, Corrie Roe, Emily Santhanam	USA	18:00 - 20:00 / 24th October
Manual Curation	Jo Wood, Joanna Collins, Dom Absolon	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	13:00 - 15:00 / 8th October
Manual Curation of Bird Micro-chromosomes with HiC and gene mapping	Thomas Mathers	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	13:00 - 15:00 / 10th October
Exploring Satellite DNA using ModDotPlot	Alex Sweeten	Johns Hopkins University, USA	15:00 - 17:00 / 7th October
OMA and OMArk for homology exploration and gene annotation quality control	Yannis Nevers, Sina Majidian	University of Lausanne, Switzerland	14:00 - 16:00 / 16th October
Production in Galaxy for users and developers	Anton Nekrutenko	Penn State University, USA	TBC
Smudgeplot	Kamil Jaron	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	08:00 - 10:00 / 18th October
T2T assembly with verkko	Sergey Koren	NiH, USA	18:00 - 20:00 / 2nd October
Tree of Life Core Lab - Wet lab protocols	Caroline Howard, Graeme Oatley	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	09:00 - 11:00 / 14th October
ToL Core Lab - Interactive DNA decision making and Q&A	Caroline Howard, Graeme Oatley	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	09:00 - 11:00 / 17th October
Thinking in Cobiont Space	Amjad Khalaf	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	10:00 - 12:00 / 18th October
TreeVal - Generating data for manual curation	Damon-Lee Pointon, Yumi Sims and William Eagles	Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK	09:00 - 11:00 / 2nd October
Wise Ancestors model and platform	Solenne Correard	Wise Ancestors, USA	08:00 - 10:00 / 15th October

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