Bay Area Bioinformatics Forum

Meetup Reviews

Reviews from
July Forum: Onur Sakarya: Exploring the RNA World with Next Gen Sequencing on Tuesday Jul 13, 2010

Meetup Rating
5.005

Attendees
24
Excellent presentation...and real food...interesting people in the crowd
— Roger Williams
The talk was excellent in highlighting possibilities and challenges in RNA-Seq; its potential and its merits even as algorithmic details are still ironed-out at this time. Very well balanced presentation, and a topic of which we'll hear a lot more in the future.
— Erich Gombocz
Great overview by Onur. Very informative for someone wanting to learn more about the rich and growing field of RNA-seq.
— Doug Hershberger
Reviews from
June Forum: Darren Platt Presents: Next Generation Genome Assembly Algorithms on Saturday Jun 12, 2010

Meetup Rating
5.008

Attendees
28
Very good review of genome assembly techniques and tools.
— Edward Elhauge
Great speaker! Entertaining, informative and timely. The facility is also top notch. Thanks to all who attended.
— Doug Hershberger
I was excited about this meetup for two months in advance and was not disappointed. Although I come from a bit different background and needed some one-on-one Q&A afterward to quite make sense of it, Darren was helpful in that regard, and I came away knowing more than when I arrived, as well as having met and had some great conversations with others too.
— Corey Ballantyne
This was a great meetup! Darren is an expert in this field and a great speaker. I am working on genome and transcriptome assemblies myself for quite some time now and found I learned a lot from Darren's talk and the discussions I had at this meeting, very relevant for my own work. As always I met fantastic people at this meetup.
— Dieter Best
I really enjoyed it.
— Mark V Wilson
Reviews from
Q2 Seminar: Peter Karp - "Databases and Algorithms for Pathway Bioinformatics" on Wednesday May 12, 2010

Meetup Rating
5.004

Attendees
22
Nice presentation on the process of how various genomes are decoded and documented.
— Marat N
A great talk with thoughtful, lively discussion from Peter and those attending. Thanks to all involved.
— Doug Hershberger
Thanks Doug, nice meeting. And it was nice to make your acquaintance as well. Please do great things at LS9, your Nation is counting on you ;-)
— Michael Fero
Reviews from
April Forum: Ruchira Datta Presents "Phylogenomics" on Saturday Apr 10, 2010

Meetup Rating
5.006

Attendees
15
Good crash-course in modern computational DNA analysis techniques .
— Marat N
I agree with the comments that the talk could have gone longer. Please continue to provide feedback as we try to balance talk time and networking opportunities.
— Doug Hershberger
Excellent presentation. There were a few slides which got cut due to time constraints which could put some later findings in better context, but - overall very good presentation!
— Erich Gombocz
It is an important topic, well presented by a very bright researcher. My only complaint is that it would be have been more comprehensible to me if she had more time to go into details.
— Joel Bolonick
The topic was interesting. The people were interesting, friendly, and welcoming. I was able to understand the gist of the presentation although it is a bit removed from my field, and learn something. There seemed to be a good mix of people in very closely related fields and people in slightly different fields. Plenty of good conversations sprang up. I also learned about other, related scientific groups from Doug.
— Corey Ballantyne
Reviews from
March Forum: Oscar Alvizo presents "Computational Protein Design" on Saturday Mar 13, 2010

Meetup Rating
5.003

Attendees
18
Dr. Alvizo gave a great talk on a very interesting topic. The lightning talks provided some very interesting topics and lively discussion, especially Jason Chin's roundup of the AGBT conference and next generation sequencing technology. J. Ireland's idea for a biomarker database generated a lot of discussion and interest. And Darryl Leon's thoughts on harnessing cloud computing brought up a hot topic and challenged us all to explore the possibilities. Thanks to all who spoke and all who came!
— Doug Hershberger
Reviews from
Quarterly Seminar on Friday Feb 19, 2010

Meetup Rating
5.003

Attendees
12
Excelent topic and speaker.
— Edward Elhauge
Great talk by Dr. Fiehn on a fascinating topic. Thank you to all who attended!
— Doug Hershberger
Reviews from
January Meeting of the Bay Area Bioinformatics Forum on Saturday Jan 23, 2010

Meetup Rating
5.005

Attendees
12
I had a great time and learned some interesting things about next gen sequence assembly and analysis
— Doug Hershberger
Very good meetup! Thanks especially to Doug for putting together such a great meeting, and to our hosts PRTM! I really enjoyed meeting everyone!
— Shane Brubaker
Reviews from
BayBIFX November Meetup on Saturday Nov 14, 2009

Meetup Rating
4.502

Attendees
10
Off to a good start. I enjoyed meeting everyone.
— Edward Elhauge