BonusBUG! Help us decide on an extra NorthernBUG session

[Andrew Mason]

Dear participants, friends and relations of the Northern BUG meetings,

We are approaching the end of this funding year for Northern BUG and thanks to some frugal spending and (mainly) excellent fundraising done for the Northern BUG10 in York by Dr Andrew Mason, we have enough funding left to organise an additional event - BonusBUG!

Before we go to The Genetics Society for permission to do it, we would like to ask the community for a preference using this form. The Steering Committee discussed some possibilities on a recent meeting and here are two ideas we would like you to consider (names are temporary):

1. NorthernBUG Extra 

This would be a one-day, hands-on training/workshop, aimed at PGRs/ECRs. For example (and it is just an example), a session on analysis of 10x single-cell data in the morning, and a session on building a snakemake pipeline in the afternoon. We think that such combination of best practices with some commercial platforms would also allow for extra funding (e.g. the first session could be run and paid for by 10x, the other by us).

2. NorthernBUG Bioinformatics Clinic

This would be a somewhat less structured, whole-day session where participants (PGRs/ECRs) would come with their data/problem, and colleagues with expertise in a number of bioinformatics/data analysis topics would be present, floating around in the room for an ad-hoc hands-on advice. The emphasis would be firmly on tinkering and pointing to right directions and demonstrating best practices rather than running someone’s full PhD analysis in a day. Depending on the availability of people with expertise, this session may have a more or less focused "theme".

In either case, we envision time for participants to have some time to present their ongoing issue and challenges in analysis (and *not* ready-made presentations on some results) to the other participants for advice and moral support.

This form contains a poll - please select your preference and (if you want) share some ideas/comments on this idea.

We anticipate this extra session would happen in the beginning of 2024, assuming the Society will let us go with it.

Best,

The NorthernBUG Steering Committee

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Dr Andrew Mason

York Against Cancer Lecturer in Cancer Informatics

Elixir-UK Data Stewardship Training Fellow

Jack Birch Unit for Molecular Carcinogenesis, York Biomedical Research Institute and Department of Biology, The University of York, York, YO10 5DD

01904 32 8708

@asmasonomics

https://asmasonomics.github.io

https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/our-staff/masonandrew/

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