Four sessions of contributed talks just posted: 1) single-cell, 2) statistical methods, 3) software infrastructure, 4) biological focus. In addition to the workshops. Early registration ends May 24! Draft schedule from http://bioc2019.bioconductor.org/schedule :

Tuesday June 25:

: Single-cell theme -- room "A"

• Robert A. Amezquita -- Orchestrating Single-Cell Analysis with Bioconductor
• Helena L. Crowell -- Analysis of multi-sample multi-group scRNA-seq data
• Shian Su -- CellBench: A Framework for Evaluating Single Cell Analysis Pipelines
• Stephanie Hicks -- mbkmeans: fast clustering for single cell data using mini-batch k-means
• Deepayan Sarkar -- Gene Set Enrichment Analysis with Multi-omics Data

: Statistical methods -- room "B"

• Nima Hejazi -- Generalized Variance Moderation for Locally Efficient Estimation in High-Dimensional Biology
• John Lawson -- Coordinate Covariation Analysis (COCOA): Understanding Interindividual Variation in Data with Genomic Coordinate s
• Ingo Ruczinski -- Detection of rare disease variants in extended pedigrees using RVS
• Svetlana Vinogradova -- ASER: eliminating transcriptome-wide batch effects results in higher precision in allele-specific expre ssion measurements
• Katharina Imkeller -- Improving accuracy of phenotype detection in whole-genome CRISPR screens

Wednesday June 26:

: Software focus -- room "A"

• Nitesh Turaga -- 3 reasons to "Bioconductor" on containers
• Vincent Carey -- Bioconductor at "cloud scale"
• Stuart Lee -- Tidy coverage analysis with superintronic and plyranges
• Nathan Sheffield -- BiocProject, a new Bioconductor-oriented project management class
• Karun Rajesh -- Storage and Analysis of Microbiome Quality Control Project Data through phyloseq Package
• Ana Beatriz Villaseñor-Altamirano -- PulmonDB with an accessible web interface of integrated and curated public transcriptomic data for the understanding of lung diseases
• Christopher Wilks -- Snapcount: rapid and flexible querying of over 70,000 gene, exon, and splice junction expression summaries

: Biological focus -- room "B"

• Benjamin Haibe-Kains -- mCI: Robust biomarker discovery from cancer pharmacogenomic data
• Aedin Culhane -- Discovery of cancer immune molecular subtypes
• Joselyn Cristina Chavez Fuentes -- A collaborative approach to improve access to bacterial regulatory networks using R/Bioconductor.
• Robert Castelo -- RNA sequencing and mass spectometry proteomics of neonatal dried blood spots
• Cesar Miguel Valdez Cordova -- histoneSig: working with continuous signal representations from the genome
• Antonio Colaprico -- DeepBlueR and MoonlightR
• Charlotte Soneson -- On the characterisation of complex transcriptomes with Nanopore native RNA sequencing