The document summarizes an upcoming Biological Visualization community meetup taking place on November 10, 2014 in Paris, France. It outlines the agenda and plans to discuss community activities and events for 2014-2016, including BioVis conferences, the VIZBI and VCBM meetings, and establishing a Biological Visualization community organization. Details are provided on dates, locations, deadlines and topics for many of these events.

1. Biological Visualization
Community Meetup
Meeting Google Doc at http://bit.ly/1u1O7dg!
Organizers
Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
10 November 2014 @ IEEE VIS in Paris, France

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Plan
• community activities and events
• BioVis 2014/2015/2016
• VIZBI 2015
• VCBM 2015
• BiVi Community
• ISCB COSI
• open discussion

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Activities and Events
• 07/2014 - BioVis 2014 (Boston, USA)
• 11/2014 - VIS & BioVis Community Meetup (Paris, France)
• 12/2014 - BiVi 1st Annual Meeting (Edinburgh, UK)
• 03/2015 - VIZBI 2015 (Cambridge, USA)
• 07/2015 - BioVis 2015 (Dublin, Ireland)
• 09/2015 - VCBM 2015 (Chester, Uk)
• 10/2015 - VIS (Chicago, USA)

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BioVis 2014 / www.biovis.net
• 11-12 July 2014 in Boston, USA
• Special Interest Group meeting at ISMB/ECCB 2015
• Keynote: Tamara Munzner (UBC)
• Challenge Speakers: Karl Broman (U Wisconsin-Madison)
& Serdar Turkarslan (Institute for Systems Biology)
• Primer Speakers: Marc Streit (JKU Linz) & Bang Wong
(Broad Institute)
• 24 other talks

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BioVis 2015 / www.biovis.net
• 10-11 July 2015 in Dublin, Ireland
• Special Interest Group meeting at ISMB/ECCB 2015
• Deadlines
• Paper submission: February 15, 2015
• Poster submission: May 29, 2015
• Data Analysis Contest entry submission: May 1, 2015
• Design Contest entry submission: May 1, 2015

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BioVis 2015 / www.biovis.net
• all papers will be available in IEEE Digital Library
and/or BMC Proceedings
• papers will also be considered for BMC
Bioinformatics using a 2-stage review process

7. BioVis 2015 Design
Contest
RNA Structure Evolution.
Chairs
Ryo Sakai, KU Leuven, Belgium
Eamonn Maguire, Oxford University, England
Both are here at VIS, so just speak with us for more information!

8. Challenge 1
Visualizing RNA structure base pair
uncertainty
Challenge 2
Visualizing RNA Structure Evolution

9. More details at
www.biovis.net/year/2015/design-contest

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BioVis 2016 / www.biovis.net
• plan is to return to IEEE VIS
• October 2016 in Washington (DC)
• then alternate between VIS and ISMB
(1 year or 2 year cycles)

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VIZBI 2015 / www.vizbi.org
• 25-27 March 2015 in Cambridge, USA
• hosted by the Broad Institute
• 20 invited speakers
• Deadlines
• poster submissions only (usually up to a week
before the event)

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VCBM 2015 / www.vcbm.org
• 14-15 September 2015 in Chester, UK
• hosted by University of Chester
• Deadlines
• Paper submission: June 21, 2015
• Poster submission: August 07, 2015

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International Society for
Computational Biology (ISCB)
• Website: http://www.iscb.org/iscb-cosis
• community of special interest (COSI)
• proposal for BioVis COSI will be submitted shortly
• goal is to establish a permanent presence in the
computational biology community
• organize small events (meetups, workshops, etc.) at
ISCB conferences when BioVis is taking place at IEEE
VIS

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Biological Visualisation
Community / bivi.co

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Biological Visualisation
Community / bivi.co
• 1st Annual Meeting
• 16-17 December 2014 in Edinburgh, UK
• hosted by Edinburgh Napier University
• Deadlines:
• submission of vis tools or data challenges via
bivi.co website

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Open Discussion
• Any other announcements?
• Questions at http://bit.ly/1u1O7dg