BioConductor Developer Workshop 4 - 5 April 2007 Lausanne, Switzerland This meeting is aimed at active developers as well as prospective developers interested in improving package writing skills and contributing to the BioConductor project. The workshop will be held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, with English as the working language. Registration is free, but the number of participants is limited to 50. Programme * Tutorials: -- New Biobase classes and discussion of S4 implementation details -- Developing packages that use S4 classes -- svn overview; package contribution, review, and release -- New SQLite-based annotation data packages -- Using Sweave for vignettes and reproducible research -- Profiling, with emphasis on new memory profiling techniques taught by developers Robert Gentleman, Wolfgang Huber, Seth Falcon, Martin Morgan * Roundtable sessions: -- Question/Answers -- Miscellaneous issues from participants The meeting will start on the morning of Wednesday 4 April, so you should plan to arrive by the evening before. Additional local information (lodging, transportation, etc) will be posted soon. The closest airport is in Geneva. Please indicate your interest in attending by email to darlene dot goldstein at epfl dot ch (dot = . ; at = @). It will be helpful for scheduling if you indicate topics of interest, including additional suggestions if you don't see them listed here. We look forward to your participation! Program Committee: Robert Gentleman, Darlene Goldstein, Wolfgang Huber, Victor Jongeneel Local Organizer: Darlene Goldstein Sponsors: Hewlett-Packard and Intel -- Darlene Goldstein ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL) Institut de math?matiques B?timent MA, Station 8 Tel: +41 21 693 5565 CH-1015 Lausanne Fax: +41 21 693 4303 SWITZERLAND