Distinguished Speakers Seminar Series
Bioconductor Decade 3: Evolving an Open Ecosystem for Genomic Data Science
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About Vincent J. Carey (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School)
Vincent Carey is Associate Professor of Medicine (Biostatistics) in the Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. As a Fulbright Specialist and as an invited lecturer, he has given short courses in statistical genomics on four continents. He was an inaugural faculty member in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Summer Course on statistical analysis of genome-scale data, and is former Editor-in-Chief of The R Journal. He is Scientific Director of Bioinformatics in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Immune Tolerance Network, and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Vaccine and Immunology Statistical Center of the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery. Vince is a co-founder of the Bioconductor project.
About this Class
In this talk, Dr. Carey will describe how Bioconductor approaches new challenges in supporting open method development and reproducible
analyses in genomic data science. He will discuss aspects of the project that bear on education in cancer epidemiology and
computational cancer genomics, and on emerging topics in software and data engineering for scalable omics analyses.