Modern life science research is increasingly reliant on data science, and a failure to keep pace with computational methods will leave UK life science research treading water.

In partnership with ELIXIR-UK, the UK-CBCB conference will cover the breadth of biological data management, analysis and sharing.

This three-day event will combine a keynote lecture with presentations of use cases from researchers working at the cutting edge, plus breakout discussion groups where participants can exchange expertise and challenges with one another, working to provide multidisciplinary solutions to complex problems together.

In order to maximise engagement across multiple disciplines in this online event, we have opted for a streamlined programme (no parallel sessions), short introductory talks and targeted breakout discussion groups to focus on particular challenges underpinned by a biological question. There will be numerous breakout discussions in each themed session, based upon the flash presentations from our research facilitators.

The confirmed themes for this event are:

Bioimaging and Artificial Intelligence
Structural Bioinformatics
Metagenomics and Microbial Bioinformatics
Spatial Transcriptomics
Federated Analytics/Learning
Open Science
Sex and Gender Bias in Computational Disciplines