CTBMB Newsletter - April 2020
In this month's edition
- Centre activities are moving online
- R Communities on Zoom
- Journal club on Zoom
- Hacky Hour on Slack
- BCC2020 an online international conference
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About the Centre
The Centre for Tropical Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology (CTBMB) is based at James Cook University, adjacent to the World Heritage-listed Daintree Rainforest and the iconic Great Barrier Reef. James Cook University is uniquely positioned to become a leader in tropical bioinformatics research. With 50% of the world’s population predicted to live in the tropics by 2050, there are numerous untapped opportunities to utilise bioinformatics research to develop novel applications to improve the health and security of the soon to be majority of the world’s population
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Online activities in lockdown
Although it is no longer possible to go to physical seminars or join a journal club at your local coffee shop there is now plenty of bioinformatics related activity online and via zoom. A big positive side to this is that the physical distance between our campuses is now irrelevant. Now is a great time to join one of our community-based activities regardless of where you work.
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R Communities in Cairns and Townsville
Cairns: Experienced and aspiring R users are very welcome. Our meetings will be re-starting shortly using zoom . Please contact Martha Cooper ( martha.cooper@my.jcu.edu.au) or Olivia Rowley ( olivia.rowley@jcu.edu.au) for more information
Please contact Martha Cooper (martha.cooper@my.jcu.edu.au) or Olivia Rowley (olivia.rowley@jcu.edu.au) for more information”
Townsville: Townsville’s R community started in 2019 inspired by the group in Cairns. We meet Mondays at 11 on Zoom. New members are encouraged to join the slack channel for updates ( https://coder-tsv.slack.com/), follow the group on twitter ( https://twitter.com/codertsv) and check the group website https://codertsv.github.io/ for access to past presentations. If you’d prefer not to use Slack please contact Chloe Boote (chloe.boote@my.jcu.edu.au) and ask to be added to the email list.
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Hacky Hour
The aim of Hacky Hour is to help researchers (staff and research students) with research-related IT problems. It’s free, informal and all researchers/helpers are welcome to drop into the Slack space for advice or offer their IT expertise to help others.
Popular topics for discussion include:
· high-performance computing (HPC),
· cloud computing,
· general programming,
· R,
· Python,
· Linux,
· data processing,
· data storage; and
· data management.
The channel will also have information on upcoming training, workshops and events.
Anyone who is interested in joining and/or helping out, please come along and introduce yourself:
https://jcu-hacky-hour.slack.com/
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Journal Club
Journal Club is an informal discussion of current papers on population genetics, genomics, microbiome, proteomics, eDNA and anything else related to DNA and its applications!
Every second week a person selects a paper (preferably recently published) that would like to discuss and emails it to the group so the rest have time to read it before JC. That person would start introducing the methods and results of the paper and then we all discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the study. It is a great opportunity to talk about new ideas and/or methods and how we could incorporate them into our own research in a friendly, “no pressure” environment.
The current Journal Club convenor is Cecilia Villacorta-Rath. If you would like to join please send her an email on cecilia.villacortarath@jcu.edu.au . This will ensure that you receive Journal Club emails
Come join us every second Friday of the month on zoom. To receive emails with fortnightly zoom links please sign up to the mailing list.
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BCC2020 Conference
This year two of the world’s largest bioinformatics community conferences, BOSC and GCC will be joining forces and going online. This conference will include regular talks as well as training and a collaboration fest. Conference dates are July 17-21. Please check out https://bcc2020.github.io/ for more information.
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