London Bioinformatics Frontiers Conference: “Standardising & scaling your analysis using Nextflow, Containers & Cloud”

Name: Claire-Alix Garin Zapata

Organisation: Lifebit Biotech

The London Bioinformatics Frontiers Conference

Register to attend : bioinformatics-frontiers.com

An exciting two-day event exploring how to apply Nextflow, Containers & Cloud in your bioinformatics analyses in order to standardise & scale them.

We bring together academic & industry experts in the genomics space to:

1. Provide an in-depth look into how Nextflow based applications are currently fast-tracking research
2. Showcase how containerisation can be used to build reproducible & modular pipelines
3. Highlight the flexibility & scalability of cloud for big data analysis
4. Showcase how to standardise Nextflow-based pipelines using software development best practices and containers
5. Work towards standardising & scaling omics pipelines over cloud during our Hackathon (Day 2, pre-registration required). Hackathon participants can either bring in their own pipelines they want to dockerise or convert to Nextflow, or work with existing Nextflow-based pipelines they want to standardise using software development best practices and scale over cloud.

Speakers

• Matthew Davies, Ervaxx Therapeutics, UK
• Alain Coletta, GenePlaza, Belgium
• Diogo Silva, Lifebit, UK
• Matthieu Foll, International Agency for Research on Cancer – WHO, France
• Giuliano Macciocci, eLIFE, UK
• Anne Deslattes Mays, Jackson Laboratories, USA
• Alessia Visconti, King’s College London, UK
• Giovanni Marco Dall’Olio, GlaxoSmithKline, UK
• Dan Greenfield, PetaGene, UK
• Anton Khodak, Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK
• Piotr Faba, Ardigen, Poland
• Tony Wildish, EMBL-EBI, UK
• Bruno Silva, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
• Anthony Underwood, The Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, UK
• Henry Ines, Shivom, USA
• Joke Reumers, Janssen, Belgium
• Adrianto Wirawan, AstraZeneca, UK
• Pablo Prieto, Lifebit, UK

Agenda

Day 1: Talks from the experts (open to the public, registration required)

• Enabling reproducible, modular analysis workflows with containerisation technology
• Standardising Nextflow based pipelines using software development best practices & containers
• From HPC to Cloud: Scaling your pipelines with Nextflow
• Containerisation: best practices & examples from the frontlines
• Learn how to assemble Nextflow pipelines quickly from modules with Flowcraft, a workflow assembling tool

Day 2: Hackathon (by application only)

• Theme: Standardising your Nextflow based pipelines and scaling them over Cloud
• Open to participants who have pipelines they would like to convert to Nextflow, or participants that have pipelines that they want to containerise or existing Nextflow-based pipelines that they want to standardise using software development best practices or scale over cloud.
• Note: To participate in the hackathon, please apply here!

Register here: bioinformatics-frontiers.com 

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Please contact us at hello@lifebit.ai if you have any questions about the event.