LINCS Data Forum 2013
The LINCS Data Forum was held March 20-21, 2013 at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA to showcase the data produced to date as well as computational tools for data analysis and methods of data visualization. Attendees were invited to participate in discussions of the curation and management of large data sets, methods for integrating data from diverse sources (imaging, biochemical, and gene expression assays as well as genomic data) and the role of standards for data annotation and accessibility. LINCS project scientists and others will provide live demonstrations of their data repositories and web-based tools for data analysis and visualization. Speakers from the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries discussed collection and applications of large datasets relevant to their work. This is an opportunity for the larger biological research community to come together to address the challenges and opportunities posed by large, biomedically-relevant data sets from diverse assay systems.
For more information on the NIH LINCS project and to access published data, visit LINCSproject.org
The meeting coincided with VIZBI, the Visualizing Biological Data meeting at MIT.
Video footage of the conference will be made available. Meeting agenda. Download the conference program and abstract book.
Keynote speakers:
Garry Nolan, Stanford University
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University
Speakers:
Jason Swedlow, University of Dundee
Nikesh Kotecha, Cytobank
Peter Sorger, Harvard Medical School/MIT
Todd Golub, Broad Institute
Andrea Califano, Columbia University
Jacob D. Jaffe, The Broad Institute
Stephan Schurer, University of Miami
Mike Rossner, The Rockefeller University Press
Andrew Hufton, Nature Publishing Group
Jeremy Jenkins, Novartis
Myles Axton, Nature Genetics
Thomas Lemberger, EMBO