
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the upcoming EuBIC 2020 developer's meeting will be held in Nyborg, Denmark, on JANUARY 13TH TO 17TH 2020. The EuBIC 2020 developer's meeting will bring together scientists active in the field of bioinformatics and computational proteomics. It provides a highly interactive platform to develop projects that are relevant to the proteomics community. _Date_: January 13-17, 2020 _Venue_: Sinatur Hotel Storebælt, Østerøvej 121, 5800 Nyborg, Denmark _Website_: https://www.proteomics-academy.org/eubic-dev-meeting-2020 KEY DATES _September 18_, 2019: Project proposal submission deadline _October 1_, 2019: Announcement of selected projects _October 1_, 2019: Conference registration opens _January 13-17_, 2020: EuBIC 2020 developer's meeting in Nyborg CALL FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS _Do you want other researchers working on your project and set up future collaborations? _ The call for topics for the hackathon sessions during the EuBIC 2020 developer's meeting is now open! During the EuBIC 2020 developer's meeting the participants will engage in hackathon sessions where they will develop bioinformatics tools and resources. The participants will break up into small groups to work together on these topics in an open, constructive, and productive atmosphere. You can now submit project proposals for inclusion into the EuBIC 2020 developer's meeting program. Submit your project proposal before 18 September through the following website: https://github.com/eubic/EuBIC2020 5-8 hackathon projects will be selected by a community vote arranged by the EuBIC program committee and announced on the conference webpage. TOPICS Hackathon projects can cover all topics in computational mass spectrometry and proteomics bioinformatics, including, but not limited to: - Tools - Extension of existing bioinformatics tools under the guidance of their original authors - Development of novel bioinformatics tools to solve open problems - Benchmarking - Compilation of gold-truth datasets - Collection of reference algorithmic implementations - Specification of benchmarking criteria - Workflows - Definition of formal protocols - Development of tutorials for bioinformatics software usage - Data analysis - (Re)analysis of publicly available proteomics datasets - Functional data analysis and integration MORE INFORMATION - Website: https://github.com/eubic/EuBIC2020 - Social media hashtag: #EuBIC20 - Conference email: eubic2020@rub.de SPONSORSHIP inquiries are welcome at eubic2020@rub.de We are grateful to the European Proteomics Association (EuPA) for supporting EuBIC and to the Novo Nordisk Foundation for their generous support of the conference! We look forward to welcoming you in Nyborg! The organizing committee. Veit Schwämmle Marie Locard-Paulet Wout Bittremieux David Bouyssié Viktoria Dorfer Dominik Kopczynski Alessio Soggiu Julian Uszkoreit Bart Van Puyvelde Sander Willems