Dear Bioconductors, We are very pleased to announce that the 2012 Bioconductor European Developers' Workshop will take place in Z?rich, Switzerland on December 13th-14th. This workshop is aimed at Bioconductor contributors and bioinformaticians who wish to contribute packages to the Bioconductor project. The aim of the meeting is to foster the exchange of technical expertise, to keep contributors up to speed with the latest developments and to coordinate related efforts. Topics this year will include: * New developments in Bioconductor core packages and infrastructure * Infrastructure and methods for understanding gene regulation * Next Generation Data handling and analysis * Reproducible research and software engineering * Tools for the management and analysis of proteomics datasets Further details can be found here: http://www.fgcz.ch/Bioconductor2012 We hope to see you in Z?rich in December! Best wishes, Mark Robinson, University of Z?rich Michal Okoniewski, Functional Genomics Centre Z?rich