BioCAsia is coming to Sydney on December 5-6. This will be the fifth Bioconductor Asia meeting. On December 5 we'll bring together researchers with an interest in Bioconductor and R to exchange ideas and expertise. On December 6 we're teaming up with BioinfoSummer (Dec 2-6) to run hands on bioinformatics training featuring Bioconductor software. Following this, the joint International Conference on Genome Informatics (formerly known as Genome Informatics Workshop; GIW) & Australian Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Society (ABACBS) Annual Conference will be held in Sydney Dec 9-11.

We're planning a fun & welcoming meeting with talks & workshops for beginners through to Gordon Smyth. We'll share more details soon, but for now please marks your calendars and share with your colleagues. We hope to see you there!

Peter Hickey, Saskia Freytag, Dario Strbenac, and Stephen Pederson