London BioGeeks

JCVI Job

CassJohnston — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:49:07 +0000

J. Craig Venter Inst are looking for a Cloud Systems Engineer:

The position requires a developer for deploying bioinformatics applications on cloud environments (EC2, Eucalyptus, Openstack), mostly coding against the cloud APIs but also having a strong foundation in Linux sysadmin skills in order to maintain JCVI’s private cloud cluster, and wiliness to join and contribute new ideas as part of a research team.

London Perl Workshop 2011

CassJohnston — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:16:19 +0000

This year’s London Perl Workshop will be held on Saturday 12th November at Westminster University.

It’s free to attend and you can sign up here: http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2011/index.html

The schedule isn’t up yet, but an update sent to the london.pm mailing list promises introductory workshops for programmers of other languages, updates on new Perl developments for current Perl programmers all the way up to advanced talks from world-renowned Perl experts.

VIZBI 2012 – Visualizing Biological Data

CassJohnston — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:28:56 +0000

VIZBI 2012 – Visualizing Biological Data.

EMBL, Heidleberg 6-8th Mar 2012

September Tech Meet – 22nd UCL

francescolescai — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:43:50 +0000

September’s BioGeeks tech meet will be on Thursday 22nd September at University College London, Bloomsbury Campus, from 6pm.

Help advertise the meeting, put up a poster!

Exploring Taverna and the community workflows
Madhu Donepudi, Eagle Genomics

An introductory tutorial covering bioinformatics workflows using Taverna workflow management system (http://www.taverna.org.uk/) and on how to avoid ‘re-inventing the workflow’ by using community developed/published services.

When?
Thursday 22nd September
6pm onwards.

Where?
University College London,
Engineering, Room 1.02
Malet Place
London, WC1E 6BT

As usual after the talk, we will go together for a few drinks
7:30 – Print Room Cafe’, UCL Bloomsbury Campus, South Junction

SameAs Pub Quiz

CassJohnston — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:56:19 +0000

The lovely Kaitlin & Matt from SameAs are organising another nerdy pub quiz on Friday 2nd September at 7pm in Juno in Hoxton.

http://sameas.us/events/fringe_quiz

If anyone fancies forming a Biogeeks team, give me a shout.

Agents | Software Sustainability Institute

CassJohnston — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:02:36 +0000

Get paid to go to conferences, highlight important bioinformatics software and spread good software development practice:

Agents | Software Sustainability Institute.

ISMB/ECCB 2011 – FriendFeed

CassJohnston — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:18:33 +0000

Microblogging ISMB:

ISMB/ECCB 2011 – FriendFeed.

Dexy – Documentation for Science and Code Ana Nelson

CassJohnston — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:21:09 +0000

More tech-talks on vimeo

Figshare – Why don’t you publish all your research? Mark Hahnel Imperial College London

CassJohnston — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:19:57 +0000

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Knowledge management in the U-biopred project Anthony Rowe Imperial College London

CassJohnston — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:47:25 +0000

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