iEvoBio conference briefing

Cynthia Parr

Hilmar Lapp

Rod Page

Rob Guralnick

Cecile Ané

TDWG Woods Hole, MA USA 27 September 2010

FLiER

Informatics aimed at advancing research in phylogenetics, evolution, and biodiversity

Tools and techniques• phylogenetic analysis• biostatistics• biogeography• visualization etc.

Cyberinfrastructure development

Large-scale data analysis

Open source

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/

Conference details

2 days, 300 participants

2 keynote talks

18 peer-reviewed talks

25 lightning talks

Birds-of-a-feather

Software bazaar

Visualization challenge

Topics

Birds-of-a-feather

@pentcheff: Digitizing the literature of systematics: exploiting Fair Use@gaston53: Functional Divergence@cydparr: Biodiversity Science Triage@cboettig and @researchremix: Open notebook science@ramorrismorris: Data annotation and TDWG Interest group@researchremix: Data sharing and reuse@researchremix: Data citation practices

@waynemaddison: Mesquite new/coming features & advice/help for user or developer

Software Bazaar

Visualization challenge

Demo talk

Online polling available only to participants

Cash prize

http://kurie.github.com/EOL-tree-viewer/ http://exon.niaid.nih.gov/nexplorer

First prize: PhyloBox

http://phylobox.appspot.com

Andrew Hill, Sander Pick and Rob Guralnick

.

Second prize: GenGIS and jsPhyloSVG

http://kiwi.cs.dal.ca/GenGIS/

http://phylotouch.jsphylosvg.com

Outcomes

Twitter.com #ievobio

Blogs (just search for them)

Slideshare.com “ievobio”

Nature Precedings http://precedings.nature.com/collections/

ievobio-2010

Meeting report in a journal

Nature precedings

Research

Standards Systems

Join us next year!

Norman, Oklahoma

mid-June