CIBi User Meeting 2017

26.06.2017

Joint CIBI user meeting featuring:

OpenMS + MetFrag: High-performance software for high-throughput proteomics and metabolomics

and

SeqAn: C++ library of efficient algorithms and data structures for the analysis of biological sequence data.

Dear friends and colleagues,

we are happy to announce the 10^th CIBI User Meeting on 25. September (09:00) until 27. September 2017 (16:00) at Martin-Luther University, Steintor-Campus, Room SR7, Emil-Abderhalden-Straße, 06108 Halle, Germany

Note: OpenMS, MetFrag, and SeqAn are developed by the Center for Integrative Bioinformatics (CIBI) and funded as a project of the german network for bioinformatic infrastructure (de.NBI). Thus, for the first time, the OpenMS user meeting is part of a larger CIBI user meeting. Participants may select if they want to participate in the OpenMS or SeqAn track. We also offer a dedicated track for users that want to develop computational tools with OpenMS and SeqAn as well as an introduction to MetFrag.

During the meeting, we will present the capabilities of CIBI tools OpenMS, MetFrag and SeqAn, and discuss your needs and future directions in mass spectrometry and sequence analysis.
This year’s meeting will include an optional OpenMS tutorial session on the first day (Monday, September 25) with the general conference starting on Tuesday, September 26.

Traditionally, the schedule of our meetings is very flexible, allowing discussions and contributions from the participants.

You can bring your data, a wish list, ideas for collaboration projects, and also give a talk about your project. This may include suggestions in areas where currently available software solutions were unsatisfactory. We would be very happy to welcome you in Halle this year.

Accommodation

Please take care of room reservations yourself.

We can suggest the following options. Prices etc. are only indicative and not guaranteed.

Hotel Am Steintor (close to Workshop location)
- https://www.am-steintor.de
- 40 EUR single room, 55 EUR double room
Hostel No5 (20 min walk, or Tram connection, Nr 2 and Nr 5)
- http://www.hostel-no5.de/hostel_lage1.html
- single room: 25 EUR per night | double room: 40 EUR per night | triple room: 15 EUR per night and person
- studio (single room, separate bath, kitchen): 40 EUR per night (single) or 50 EUR per night (double)
- plus breakfast: 4 EUR per day and person (must be ordered before arrival)
Hotel Ankerhof (20 min walk or direct Tram connection, Nr 2 and Nr 5)
- http://www.leipziggrafik.de/anker05/htdocs/anfahrt.shtml
- special rate (incl. breakfast) is 65 EUR per person and night with booking code: «Leibniz Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie»
Further accommodation options:
- http://www.hrs.de
- https://www.couchsurfing.org/

Journey

Directions to the Steintor Campus Uni Halle: https://goo.gl/ZNSmBM

By train: Halle is well connected within Germany’s network of IC and ICE trains https://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query2.exe/en

By plane: Nearest airports are Halle-Leipzig (LEJ), Erfurt (ERF), Berlin (TXL & SXF).

Shortest connection is via Halle-Leipzig Airport, but flights might not run every day. Nice connections are possible via Berlin with train to Halle (Saale) and via Frankfurt (FRA) using the ICE train connection. Note that the Berlin airport BER is still not opened.

Public transport in Halle: https://goo.gl/9Zo5vy, http://www.havag.com/fahrplan/liniennetz-und-tarifzonenplan

Registration

Participants need to register via https://goo.gl/forms/8WKW2T2OBrosfiuA3. The deadline for the workshop registration is 31. July 2017. Notification of acceptance is 15. August 2017. The workshop fee is 50 € for students (Undergrad / PhD), and 80 € for Industry, PostDoc, PI, Professor or above. Fees will cover coffee breaks, lunch, and the workshop dinner.

Schedule

TBA

Speaker:
We are excited to have Keynote talks by Wolfram Weckwerth (MOSYS, Uni Vienna), Greg Landrum (RDKIT/KNIME), Ivo Grosse (MLU Halle), and Steffen Neumann (IPB Halle)