BioC Developer Meeting

Wednesday 4 April

9.00 - 9.15 Victor Jongeneel: Welcome remarks, Vital-IT and R/BioConductor

9.15 - 9.45 Martin Morgan, Seth Falcon: New Biobase classes, discussion of S4 implementation details

9.45 - 10.15 Discussion, Q/A

10.15 - 10.45 Coffee break

10.45 - 11.30 Seth Falcon: Package contribution, review, release; svn overview

11.30 - 13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 13.30 Seth Falcon: Sweave, weaver

13.30 - 14.45 Lightning talks, Q/A

14.45 - 15.00 Move to Génopode Aud A for seminars

15.00 - 15.45 Wolfgang Huber seminar

15.45 - 16.15 Coffee break (sponsored)

16.15 - 17.00 Robert Gentleman seminar

Dinner on your own

Thursday 5 April

9.00 - 9.20 Li Long: RBGL and Rgraphviz

9.20 - 9.50 Seth Falcon: New SQLite-based annotation data packages

9.50 - 10.15 Q/A, discussion time

10.15 - 10.45 Coffee break

10.45 - 11.30 Robert Gentleman: Debugging and Profiling

11.30 - 13.00 Lunch

13.00 - 15.00 Development Sprint on Gene Set Infrastructure

15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break

15.30 - 16.30 Continue Gene Set Infrastructure Sprint

16.30 - 17.00 Project summarization, Discussion

end of workshop

Biobase / S4 classes

• Slides, R

SQLite-based annotation

• Notes
• R Script

Package Review Discussion

• Notes

Debugging and profiling

• Slides

Group Projects

• GeneSet Use Cases
• GeneSet Implementation

Lodging

The University can obtain a discount rate from some of the local hotels:

Hotel des Voyageurs (http://www.holidaycityeurope.com/comfort-lausanne/), approx 122CHF, is in downtown Lausanne on a pedestrian street

Hotel du Parc (http://www.leparc.ch/), approx 110 CHF, is in Ecublens a few metro stops from the University.

To obtain the discount we must book the room for you. If you want to book one of these, then please send an email as soon as possible to Jocelyne.Muller AT licr DOT org, letting her know which hotel you prefer, what days you need and how many in the room (single or double). If booking a double room, only 1 email with both names is necessary. Alternatively, you are free to make your own lodging arrangements; if you do so, please email Darlene.Goldstein AT epfl DOT ch so that we know you are already taken care of.

Getting to Lausanne

The closest airport is in Geneva. There is a train station at the airport (Geneva Airport, NOT Geneva), with 3-5 trains per hour to Renens VD and Lausanne. You can plan your train journey (in English) at http://www.sbb.ch/en/index.htm You can also change the language to German, French or Italian.

The currency in Switzerland is the Swiss Franc (CHF), equivalent to approximately 0.80 US dollar, 0.60 Euro, or 0.40 British pounds sterling. Exchanging money is very easy in Switzerland, you can change money at major train stations (including at the airport) and banks, or at cash machines using debit or credit cards.

About Lausanne

Lausanne, the capital of the Swiss canton Vaud, is a hilly city located on the shore of Lake Geneva (Lac L�man) in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. It is the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, and home to several museums, parks and other attractions.

Local information is available from the following web sites (the main page is in French, but you can change the language by clicking on one of the flags at the top of the page):

• http://www.lausanne.ch/ Official site of the city of Lausanne
• http://www.lausanne-tourisme.ch/ Lausanne Tourist Office

Other Questions?

If you have any other questions, please email Darlene.Goldstein AT epfl DOT ch.

We look forward to your participation!