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Visualising Biological Data - VIZBI 2010
3-5 March 2010
Heidelberg, Germany
Organisers:
Sean O'Donoghue, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Nils Gehlenborg, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge,
UK
James Procter, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Reinhard Schneider, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Draft
Report
Summary
The goal of VIZBI workshop was to bring together researchers developing and using
visualisation systems across a wide area of biological disciplines. This was the first
meeting of its kind, and it took place 3-5 March 2010 at the EMBL in Heidelberg,
Germany. The workshop was attended by 113 participants, 30 speakers and 4 organisers -147 people in total. The meeting reviewed the state-of-the-art and challenges in
visualising biological data across a wide range of fields, in particular genomics, sequence
alignment and phylogeny, systems biology, 3D structures, optical microscopy, and MRI.
The workshop had many concrete and positive outcomes, including the following: a
collection of authoritative reviews spanning the field; the establishment of a website that
draws together information and resources on visualisation in biology; a community effort
to maintain a group of Wikipedia pages that collection further information on biological
visualization tools; videos and Powerpoint/Keynote files of the presentations at VIZBI
2010. The meeting received very positive feedback from meeting participants, which was
documented by anonymous collection by the EMBO. Full details of VIZBI 2010, including
the programme, posters, etc. are available at the VIZBI website - http://vizbi.org.
Scientific
Content
At the end of the VIZBI 2010 workshop, a final session was devoted to summarising and
reviewing the topics and issues raised in the workshop. This discussion is available in bullet-point form at: http://vizbi.org/2010/Talks/Closing_Remarks.pdf
In addition, a commentary publication was prepared as part of this workshop, primarily authored by the organisers and session chairs of VIZBI. The commentary provides a
concise summary of the issues covered in the workshop, in three printed pages:
• O'Donoghue SI, Gavin A-C, Gehlenborg N, Goodsell DS, Hériché J-K, Nielsen CB,
North C, Olson AJ, Procter JB, Shattuck DW, et al: Visualizing biological data
-now and in the future. Nature Methods 2010, 7:S2-S4.
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v7/n3s/full/nmeth.f.301.html
Finally, the speakers have prepared a series of reviews that span the scientific content of
the meeting in details:
1. Nielsen CB, Cantor M, Dubchak, I., Gordon D, Wang T: Visualizing Genomes:
Techniques and Challenges. Nature Methods 2010, 7:S5-S15.
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v7/n3s/full/nmeth.1422.html
2. Procter JB, Barton GJ, Thompson J, Westhof E, Creevey C, Letunic I:
Visualization of multiple alignments, phylogenies and gene family
evolution. Nature Methods 2010, 7:S16-S25. http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v7/n3s/full/nmeth.1434.html
3. Walter T, Shattuck D, Baldock R, Bastin M, Carpenter AE, Duce S, Ellenberg J,
Fraser A, Hamilton N, Pieper S, et al: Visualization of image data from cells
to organisms. Nature Methods 2010, 7:S26-S41.
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v7/n3s/full/nmeth.1431.html
4. O'Donoghue SI, Goodsell DS, Frangakis AS, Jossinet F, Laskowski R, Nilges M,
Saibil HR, Schafferhans A, Wade R, Westhof E, Olson AJ: Visualization of
macromolecular structures. Nature Methods 2010, 7:S42-S55.
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v7/n3s/full/nmeth.1427.html
5. Gehlenborg N, O'Donoghue SI, Baliga NS, Goesmann A, Hibbs MA, Kitano H,
Kohlbacher O, Neuweger H, Schneider R, Tenenbaum D, Gavin A-C:
Visualization of Omics Data for Systems Biology. Nature Methods 2010,
7:S56-S68.
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v7/n3s/full/nmeth.1436.html
Assessment of the results & impact of the event on the future direction of the field As mentioned above, the workshop produced a series of
authoritative review articles in a special issue of Nature Methods (available online at
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v7/n3s/index.html). The special issue has
attracted considerable interest in the community, and was also featured prominently on
the Nature and Nature Biotechnology websites. A further two articles have been
commissioned by Nature Methods and EMBO Reports.
Based on the strong and positive feedback and reception of the meeting, we planning to
extend this meeting into a workshop series which would alternate each year between
Europe and the USA. Programme
Wednesday 3 March 2010
Thursday 4 March 2010
Friday 5 March 2010
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