Start of the ievobio conference, simultaneously the forth day of evolution. ievobio conference was very busy, luckily given the nature of the conference it is also largely well documented online. My notes are again archived primarily in tweet form below. My personal highlights of the day included the Keynote by Cladio Silva on Provenance – essentially supporting reproducible research workflows – and examples through his vistrails software, and Mark Yoder’s demonstration of mx at the software bazaar. Something like that might really get us past the era of spreadsheets in comparative methods. See the link to the full program and visit the repository of slides from all the talks.
PROGRAM
My twitter coverage
cboettig Great discussions during the #ievobio software bazzar and after – coalesced in big circle on challenges of adoption & funding such projects4:30 AM Jun 22nd from TweetDeck
cboettig Keesey @tmkeesey presents: https://phylopic.orgfind (open-licensed) organism silhouettes for your scientific diagrams #ievobio #evol117:49 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig and it looks amazing-> RT @cydparr: Aaron Steele kicks off lightning talks with an update on Map of LIfehttps://bit.ly/jDN7VG #ievobio7:29 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Mark Holder introduces lightning talks at #ievobio: Like regular 15 min talks, but they’ll speak three times as fast…7:25 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig #ievobio trying to figure out which one of the challenge entries would best pass the test: could my PI figure out how to use this and why?7:23 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Deck says that BioSciCol would capture “trending data” twitter-style #ievobiohttps://bit.ly/mPV84s6:43 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig #ievobio now on to Matasci et. al. solving the taxanomic name problems: convert spelling errors, update names as the change, & other magic5:03 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Deck describes analyses that would run and update auomatically using unique ids. meta-analyses would never be the same #ievobio5:01 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Deck’s vision for future (uuids, rdfa, aggregation, etc) sounds a bit like: make your biological data your tweeps #ievobio5:00 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
hlapp Should we give award for most acronyms per minute in talk? #ievobio4:52 PM Jun 21st from Twitter for iPad retweeted by cboettig
cboettig John Deck discusses collections that would alert researchers to when data relevant to them becomes available #ievobio4:46 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
recology_ accessing EOL via their API in Rhttps://bit.ly/jLmBYI , code in development at github #ievobio4:40 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck retweeted by cboettig
cboettig Are the networks @cydparr shows all integrated by APIs? Do these interface with @dataONEorg ? #ievobio4:37 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig @cyndyparr describes major network hubs of biodiversity data: @eol, ncbi, a few others. Still many isolated nodes to reach #ievobio4:35 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig @cydparr Updates us on the status of the biodiversity data ecosystem a tour-de-force of cool projects and vision of what’s needed #ievobio4:26 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig #ievobio : too fast for smart phones, switching to laptop4:19 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig advances and challenges in grabbing trees from images also addressed in @blJOg TreeRipperhttps://bit.ly/jufyqI #ievobio4:18 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Stolzfus on what makes reuse easy and hard: “Not a lot of research here.. these are just obvious!” #ievobio4:17 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Stolzfus #ievobio : “archiving an image of a phylogenetic tree is about as practical as an image of a coffee-mug”4:12 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Now at #ievobio Arlin Stolzfus: Publishing reusable phylogenetic trees: file formatls, archives, and tools (@omearabrian lab)4:10 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Piel discusses helping comparative methods like Pagel’s DISCRETE handle missing species by synthesizing “virtual trees” #ievobio4:05 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Sourcecode for Estill’s code all up on github:https://bit.ly/lNMFMX #ievobio3:49 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig @mrgunn I believe all slides from speakers at #ievobio will be archived on slideshare :https://slidesha.re/lR1MBl @cydparr correct url?3:46 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Now at #ievobio representing species trees in the cyberinfastructure, i.e. https://bit.ly/mP8xgo3:39 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Silva’s visualizations have rendered me tweetless #ievobio3:03 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Silva’s slide right now is way too awesome to summarize in a tweet #ievobio2:49 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Silva: “Sharing of data is useful, but we need sharing of data analysis” #ievobio2:46 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Indeed! beat me to the tweet @recology_vistrails.org API: sounds like we should write an R wrapper for interfacing with vistrails #ievobio2:39 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig #ievobio Vistrails looks excellent. Is the API a rest/xml/json implementation? https://www.vistrails.com/2:38 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Perhaps my slides are an example of Silva’s theme? Click graph to get code, version history, timestamp, tags: https://bit.ly/lIK63F #ievobio2:30 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Silva “Provenance (process) is more important than results” - results are often wrong, what is useful is what you actually did #ievobio2:27 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cydparr Silva: notion of an executable paper, interact with the data and analyses from the paper https://bit.ly/jfgWQN#ievobio2:23 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck retweeted by cboettig
cboettig Silva shows scientific process in a circle, describes “executable papers.” Reminds me @evomri & @cameronneylon’s docu the cycle #ievobio2:24 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig Claudio Silva describes today’s science process: publications reveal only the tip of the iceberg; the rest is lost (& not repro.) #ievobio2:19 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig @cydparr introduces #ievobio committee ending with “… and @rdmpage is our mascott”2:09 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig #ievobio attendance is about half returning paticipants and half new. Lot smaller than the 300 registrations last year though…1:56 PM Jun 21st from TweetDeck
cboettig #ievobio begins at #evol11 – A lot more laptops all around me, I must be in the right room.